net_dev is being de-referenced without proper checking; fix it.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/staging/hv/rndis_filter.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/rndis_filter.c 
b/drivers/staging/hv/rndis_filter.c
index ef43f2e..bafccb3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/rndis_filter.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/rndis_filter.c
@@ -368,11 +368,11 @@ int rndis_filter_receive(struct hv_device *dev,
        struct rndis_message *rndis_hdr;
        struct net_device *ndev;
 
-       ndev = net_dev->ndev;
-
        if (!net_dev)
                return -EINVAL;
 
+       ndev = net_dev->ndev;
+
        /* Make sure the rndis device state is initialized */
        if (!net_dev->extension) {
                netdev_err(ndev, "got rndis message but no rndis device - "
-- 
1.7.4.1

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