Hi, this looks good. David, would you pick this patch directly? Otherwise, I can send a pull request, but right now we would only have this single patch for net-next. Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann (just discussed with Sven offline) Thank you, Simon On Friday, March 23, 2018 10:53:50 PM CEST Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King > > In the case where hard_iface is NULL, the error path may pass a null > pointer to batadv_hardif_put causing a null pointer dereference error. > Avoid this by only calling the function if hard_iface not null. > > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1466456 ("Explicit null dereferenced") > > Fixes: 53dd9a68ba68 ("batman-adv: add multicast flags netlink support") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King > --- > net/batman-adv/multicast.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/net/batman-adv/multicast.c b/net/batman-adv/multicast.c > index de3a055f7dd8..bd0ea374d043 100644 > --- a/net/batman-adv/multicast.c > +++ b/net/batman-adv/multicast.c > @@ -1536,7 +1536,7 @@ batadv_mcast_netlink_get_primary(struct > netlink_callback *cb, > > if (!ret && primary_if) > *primary_if = hard_iface; > - else > + else if (hard_iface) > batadv_hardif_put(hard_iface); > > return ret;