linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: strparser: fix a missing check for create_singlethread

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Date:   Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:52:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, doronrk@...com, vakul.garg@....com,
        davejwatson@...com, yuehaibing@...wei.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: strparser: fix a missing check for
 create_singlethread_workqueue

From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 23:12:06 -0500

> In case create_singlethread_workqueue fails, the check returns
> an error to callers to avoid potential NULL pointer dereferences.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>

Applied.