[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1] fs: avoid possible NULL dereference in fs_devread

Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Sun Nov 19 22:49:21 UTC 2017


It is unwise to first dereference a variable
and then to check if it was NULL.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
---
 fs/fs_internal.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/fs_internal.c b/fs/fs_internal.c
index 58b441030c..5cdd272c9d 100644
--- a/fs/fs_internal.c
+++ b/fs/fs_internal.c
@@ -15,12 +15,13 @@ int fs_devread(struct blk_desc *blk, disk_partition_t *partition,
 	       lbaint_t sector, int byte_offset, int byte_len, char *buf)
 {
 	unsigned block_len;
-	int log2blksz = blk->log2blksz;
+	int log2blksz;
 	ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER(char, sec_buf, (blk ? blk->blksz : 0));
 	if (blk == NULL) {
 		printf("** Invalid Block Device Descriptor (NULL)\n");
 		return 0;
 	}
+	log2blksz = blk->log2blksz;
 
 	/* Check partition boundaries */
 	if ((sector + ((byte_offset + byte_len - 1) >> log2blksz))
-- 
2.15.0



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