From: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:54:42 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: asus-laptop: Fix potential invalid pointer dereference
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9f89748463f13c9657496b12820f09a988ce77ff;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

asus-laptop: Fix potential invalid pointer dereference

The 0-day build testing backend noticed that a string could be dereferenced
without validation. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
index d0c519762dcf..fcde4e528819 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
@@ -1743,7 +1743,7 @@ static int asus_laptop_get_info(struct asus_laptop *asus)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	if (*string)
+	if (string)
 		pr_notice("  %s model detected\n", string);
 
 	if (!acpi_check_handle(asus->handle, METHOD_WL_STATUS, NULL))