Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] openvswitch: add null pointer check on upcall

2017-11-09 Thread Pravin Shelar
On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King > > upcall may be assigned a NULL pointer as genlmsg_put can potentially > return a NULL. Add a null check to avoid a null pointer dereference > on upcall. > > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#728404 ("Dereference null return

[PATCH] openvswitch: add null pointer check on upcall

2017-11-09 Thread Colin King
From: Colin Ian King upcall may be assigned a NULL pointer as genlmsg_put can potentially return a NULL. Add a null check to avoid a null pointer dereference on upcall. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#728404 ("Dereference null return value") Fixes: commit ccb1352e76cf ("net: Add Open vSwitch ker