netdev - [patch] openvswitch: checking wrong variable in queue_userspace

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Date:	Sun, 13 May 2012 21:44:18 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, dev@...nvswitch.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] openvswitch: checking wrong variable in
 queue_userspace_packet()

"skb" is non-NULL here, for example we dereference it in skb_clone().
The intent was to test "nskb" which was just set.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index fe28562..2c74daa 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static int queue_userspace_packet(int dp_ifindex, struct sk_buff *skb,
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
 		nskb = __vlan_put_tag(nskb, vlan_tx_tag_get(nskb));
-		if (!skb)
+		if (!nskb)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
 		nskb->vlan_tci = 0;
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