iwlwifi: fix possible NULL dereference in iwl_set_rate()

Signed-off-by: Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@compnerd.org>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
index 9918780f5e86..0b22e0173576 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
@@ -3003,6 +3003,10 @@ static void iwl_set_rate(struct iwl_priv *priv)
         int i;
 
         hw = iwl_get_hw_mode(priv, priv->phymode);
+        if (!hw) {
+                IWL_ERROR("Failed to set rate: unable to get hw mode\n");
+                return;
+        }
 
         priv->active_rate = 0;
         priv->active_rate_basic = 0;