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staging: vboxsf: fix dereference of pointer dentry before it is null checked
authorColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Tue, 5 Nov 2019 17:51:08 +0000 (17:51 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 7 Nov 2019 15:29:17 +0000 (16:29 +0100)
commit56c8c3639b795a0642639ae25ff5ad742c3b0398
tree256850638a0729067d6f2f167322c044545b42d1
parent28f3138250f797ed1304da68646c4638fa99a4e3
staging: vboxsf: fix dereference of pointer dentry before it is null checked

Currently the pointer dentry is being dereferenced before it is
being null checked.  Fix this by only dereferencing dentry once
we know it is not null.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
Fixes: 1e7a2867202e ("staging: Add VirtualBox guest shared folder (vboxsf) support")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105175108.79824-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/vboxsf/utils.c