linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: gdm724x: add error handling for nlmsg

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Date:   Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:14:32 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Zhouyang Jia <jiazhouyang09@...il.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: gdm724x: add error handling for nlmsg_put

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:27:26AM +0800, Zhouyang Jia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I reported this bug since more than 95% callsites of nlmsg_put are
> well handled in kernel, and many of them also allocated skb before.
> 

That's probably true, but the NULL check is not required *here*.

Just mark it as a false positive in your tool and move on...  It's not
like we are close to running out of real bugs to deal with.

regards,
dan carpenter