Oct 23 2014

staging: rtl8188eu: core: fix null dereference on exit path in rtw_mlme.c 

Author: Jiayi Ye <yejiayily@gmail.com>

If adapter is null, null dereference may occur. This patch fixes it.
The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used to find the case.

@@
expression E, E1;
identifier f;
statement S1,S2,S3;
@@

* if (E == NULL)
{
 ... when != if (E == NULL) S1 else S2
     when != E = E1
* E->f
 ... when any
 return ...;
}
else S3

Signed-off-by: Jiayi Ye 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 

---
 drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c
index 149c271..bbebe67 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c
@@ -1437,7 +1437,7 @@ void rtw_dynamic_check_timer_handlder(void *function_context)
 	struct registry_priv *pregistrypriv = &adapter->registrypriv;
 
 	if (!adapter)
-		goto exit;
+		return;
 	if (!adapter->hw_init_completed)
 		goto exit;
 	if ((adapter->bDriverStopped) || (adapter->bSurpriseRemoved))

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