From: Colin Ian King <colin.king(a)canonical.com> In the case where hard_iface is NULL, the error path may pass a null pointer to batadv_hardif_put causing a null pointer dereference error. Avoid this by only calling the function if hard_iface not null. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1466456 ("Explicit null dereferenced") Fixes: 53dd9a68ba68 ("batman-adv: add multicast flags netlink support") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king(a)canonical.com> --- net/batman-adv/multicast.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/batman-adv/multicast.c b/net/batman-adv/multicast.c index de3a055f7dd8..bd0ea374d043 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/multicast.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/multicast.c @@ -1536,7 +1536,7 @@ batadv_mcast_netlink_get_primary(struct netlink_callback *cb, if (!ret && primary_if) *primary_if = hard_iface; - else + else if (hard_iface) batadv_hardif_put(hard_iface); return ret;