linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] net: fix NULL pointer reference in cipso_v4_doi

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Message-ID: <7d43588d-1941-6887-46f7-1d76db64e568@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 Sep 2021 11:04:07 +0800
From:   王贇 <yun.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     paul@...l-moore.com, kuba@...nel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        dsahern@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: fix NULL pointer reference in cipso_v4_doi_free



On 2021/9/1 下午6:45, David Miller wrote:
[snip]
>>>>>
>>>>> It isn't your fault that both v1 and v2 were merged, but I'm asking
>>>>> you to help cleanup the mess.  If you aren't able to do that please
>>>>> let us know so that others can fix this properly.
>>>>
>>>> No problem I can help on that, just try to make sure it's not a
>>>> meaningless work.
>>>>
>>>> So would it be fine to send out a v3 which revert v1 and apply v2?
>>>
>>> Please don't do things this way just send the relative change.
>>
>> Could you please check the patch:
>>
>> Revert "net: fix NULL pointer reference in cipso_v4_doi_free"
>>
>> see if that's the right way?
> 
> It is not. Please just send a patch against the net GIT tree which relatively changes the code to match v2 of your change.

Sorry for my horrible reading comprehension... I checked netdev/net.git master branch
and saw v2's change already applied, thus I've no idea how to change it again but pretty
sure I still misunderstanding the suggestion, could please kindly provide more details?

Regards,
Michael Wang

> 
> Thank you.
>