From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>

A null pointer dereference will occur when skb is null and
skb->dev->name is printed.  Replace the skb->dev->name with
plain text "ks_wlan" to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c 
b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
index a8822fe..e8a2564 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
@@ -481,8 +481,7 @@ void hostif_data_indication(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
                        netif_rx(skb);
                } else {
                        printk(KERN_WARNING
-                              "%s: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n",
-                              skb->dev->name);
+                              "ks_wlan: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n");
                        priv->nstats.rx_dropped++;
                }
                break;
@@ -517,8 +516,7 @@ void hostif_data_indication(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
                        netif_rx(skb);
                } else {
                        printk(KERN_WARNING
-                              "%s: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n",
-                              skb->dev->name);
+                              "ks_wlan: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n");
                        priv->nstats.rx_dropped++;
                }
                break;
-- 
2.8.1

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