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Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 2015 11:30:16 -0700
From:	Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com>
To:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch -master] netfilter: xt_CT: checking for IS_ERR() instead
 of NULL

On 3 August 2015 at 11:29, Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com> wrote:
> On 30 July 2015 at 04:57, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 01:42:28AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>>> We recently changed this from nf_conntrack_alloc() to nf_ct_tmpl_alloc()
>>> so the error handling needs to changed to check for NULL instead of
>>> IS_ERR().
>>>
>>> Fixes: 0838aa7fcfcd ('netfilter: fix netns dependencies with conntrack templates')
>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>>
>> Applied, thanks.
>>
>> I have also appended this chunk, since synproxy is also affected:
>>
>> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c
>> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c
>> @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static int __net_init synproxy_net_init(struct net *net)
>>         int err = -ENOMEM;
>>
>>         ct = nf_ct_tmpl_alloc(net, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
>> -       if (IS_ERR(ct)) {
>> +       if (!ct) {
>>                 err = PTR_ERR(ct);
>>                 goto err1;
>>         }
>
> Does PTR_ERR() implicitly interpret NULL as -ENOMEM? Seems like the
> fix applied here is a little different from the xt_CT fix.

Just saw the initialization of err now, but this would be overridden
within the error checking statement.
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