ppp: potential NULL dereference in ppp_mp_explode()
Smatch complains because we check whether "pch->chan" is NULL and then
dereference it unconditionally on the next line. Partly the reason this
bug was introduced is because code was too complicated. I've simplified
it a little.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
index 6695a51..736b917 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
@@ -1314,8 +1314,13 @@
hdrlen = (ppp->flags & SC_MP_XSHORTSEQ)? MPHDRLEN_SSN: MPHDRLEN;
i = 0;
list_for_each_entry(pch, &ppp->channels, clist) {
- navail += pch->avail = (pch->chan != NULL);
- pch->speed = pch->chan->speed;
+ if (pch->chan) {
+ pch->avail = 1;
+ navail++;
+ pch->speed = pch->chan->speed;
+ } else {
+ pch->avail = 0;
+ }
if (pch->avail) {
if (skb_queue_empty(&pch->file.xq) ||
!pch->had_frag) {