On Mon, 9 Nov 2020, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King > > Currently the assignment of pointer net from the sock_net(sk) call > is potentially dereferencing a null pointer sk. sk points to the > same location as pointer msk and msk is being null checked after > the sock_net call. Fix this by calling sock_net after the null > check on pointer msk. > > Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check") > Fixes: 00cfd77b9063 ("mptcp: retransmit ADD_ADDR when timeout") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King > --- > net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > Hi Colin and Jakub - I noticed that the follow-up discussion on this patch didn't go to the netdev list, so patchwork did not get updated. This patch is superseded by the following, which already has a Reviewed-by tag from Matthieu: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/078a2ef5bdc4e3b2c25ef852461692001f426495.1604976945.git.geliangtang(a)gmail.com/ Thanks! -- Mat Martineau Intel