There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.

Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_config.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_config.c 
b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_config.c
index bf56120..231656e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_config.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_config.c
@@ -745,11 +745,13 @@ void sptlrpc_conf_log_update_begin(const char *logname)
        mutex_lock(&sptlrpc_conf_lock);
 
        conf = sptlrpc_conf_get(fsname, 0);
-       if (conf && conf->sc_local) {
-               LASSERT(conf->sc_updated == 0);
-               sptlrpc_conf_free_rsets(conf);
+       if (conf) {
+               if(conf->sc_local) {
+                       LASSERT(conf->sc_updated == 0);
+                       sptlrpc_conf_free_rsets(conf);
+               }
+               conf->sc_modified = 0;
        }
-       conf->sc_modified = 0;
 
        mutex_unlock(&sptlrpc_conf_lock);
 }
-- 
1.7.10.4

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