[HPDD-discuss] [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre: osc: lproc_osc.c: Fix for possible null pointer dereference

There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference. Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck. Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist(a)spectrumdigital.se&gt; --- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/lproc_osc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/lproc_osc.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/lproc_osc.c index 9f719bc..9ba6293 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/lproc_osc.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/lproc_osc.c @@ -237,13 +237,15 @@ static ssize_t osc_cur_grant_bytes_seq_write(struct file *file, const char *buff size_t count, loff_t *off) { struct obd_device *obd = ((struct seq_file *)file->private_data)->private; - struct client_obd *cli = &obd->u.cli; + struct client_obd *cli; int rc; __u64 val; if (obd == NULL) return 0; + cli = &obd->u.cli; + rc = lprocfs_write_u64_helper(buffer, count, &val); if (rc) return rc; -- 1.7.10.4