mwl8k: Fixing sta dereference when ieee80211_tx_info->control.sta is NULL
Following oops was seen on SMP machine >BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000012 >IP: [<f8c56691>] mwl8k_tx+0x20e/0x561 [mwl8k] >*pde = 00000000 >Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP >Modules linked in: mwl8k mac80211 cfg80211 [last unloaded: cfg80211] As ieee80211_tx_info->control.sta may be NULL during ->tx call, avoiding sta dereference in such scenario with the following patch. Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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