ipv6: move dereference after check in fl_free()

There is a dereference before checking for NULL bug here.  Generally
free() functions should accept NULL pointers.  For example, fl_create()
can pass a NULL pointer to fl_free() on the error path.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
index c836a6a20a34..90bbefb57943 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
@@ -91,12 +91,9 @@ static struct ip6_flowlabel *fl_lookup(struct net *net, __be32 label)
 
 static void fl_free(struct ip6_flowlabel *fl)
 {
-        switch (fl->share) {
-        case IPV6_FL_S_PROCESS:
-                put_pid(fl->owner.pid);
-                break;
-        }
         if (fl) {
+                if (fl->share == IPV6_FL_S_PROCESS)
+                        put_pid(fl->owner.pid);
                 release_net(fl->fl_net);
                 kfree(fl->opt);
         }