From: John Linville <linville@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:52:00 -0500 Subject: [net] mac80211: avoid uninit ptr deref in ieee80211 Message-id: <20091207185200.GA7022@redhat.com> Patchwork-id: 21721 O-Subject: [RHEL5.5 PATCH] mac80211: avoid uninitialized ptr deref in ieee80211_change_iface Bugzilla: 545121 RH-Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> ieee80211_change_iface dereferences an uninitialized pointer -- oops! I missed this warning among some other warning SPAM (patch to follow)... :-( BZ545121 net/mac80211/cfg.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c index 912b4b1..3ea9006 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c +++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static int ieee80211_change_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata; int ret; - if (netif_running(sdata->dev)) + if (netif_running(dev)) return -EBUSY; if (!nl80211_type_check(type))