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kobject: fix dereference before null check on kobj
authorColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Wed, 1 May 2019 12:43:17 +0000 (13:43 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 1 May 2019 13:08:38 +0000 (15:08 +0200)
commit46b252e8d4d51177e567fa63d22ed58f02b3a3f4
tree3331ef1d2ee94ef2b273ab1ec058e63641250483
parent24fe646153cc8a680f889a1ec81b9745983b60ea
kobject: fix dereference before null check on kobj

The kobj pointer is being null-checked so potentially it could be null,
however, the ktype declaration before the null check is dereferencing kobj
hence we have a potential null pointer deference. Fix this by moving the
assignment of ktype after kobj has been null checked.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
Fixes: 69dee9413867 ("kobject: Add support for default attribute groups to kobj_type")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
lib/kobject.c