udev: variable dereferenced before check 'cmsg'

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/udev/udev-ctrl.c b/src/udev/udev-ctrl.c
index b0ad277f73..b4ae0944eb 100644
--- a/src/udev/udev-ctrl.c
+++ b/src/udev/udev-ctrl.c
@@ -379,13 +379,14 @@ struct udev_ctrl_msg *udev_ctrl_receive_msg(struct udev_ctrl_connection *conn) {
         cmsg_close_all(&smsg);
 
         cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&smsg);
-        cred = (struct ucred *) CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
 
         if (cmsg == NULL || cmsg->cmsg_type != SCM_CREDENTIALS) {
                 log_error("no sender credentials received, message ignored");
                 goto err;
         }
 
+        cred = (struct ucred *) CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
+
         if (cred->uid != 0) {
                 log_error("sender uid="UID_FMT", message ignored", cred->uid);
                 goto err;