netdev - [PATCH] Revert "openvswitch: potential NULL deref in sample()"

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Date:	Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:19:40 -0700
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "openvswitch: potential NULL deref in sample()"

This reverts commit 5b3e7e6cb5771bedda51cdb6f715d1da8cd9e644.

The problem that the original commit was attempting to fix can
never happen in practice because validation is done one a per-flow
basis rather than a per-packet basis.  Adding additional checks at
runtime is unnecessary and inconsistent with the rest of the code.

CC: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
---
 net/openvswitch/actions.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/actions.c b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
index 320fa0e..f3f96ba 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/actions.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
@@ -325,9 +325,6 @@ static int sample(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (!acts_list)
-		return 0;
-
 	return do_execute_actions(dp, skb, nla_data(acts_list),
 						 nla_len(acts_list), true);
 }
-- 
1.7.9.5

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