netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/5] net/sched: fix NULL dereference in the error path of .init()

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Date:   Sat, 17 Mar 2018 19:53:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dcaratti@...hat.com
Cc:     xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us, mrv@...atatu.com,
        kurup.manish@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/5] net/sched: fix NULL dereference in the error
 path of .init()

From: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:52 +0100

> with several TC actions it's possible to see NULL pointer dereference,
> when the .init() function calls tcf_idr_alloc(), fails at some point and
> then calls tcf_idr_release(): this series fixes all them introducing
> non-NULL tests in the .cleanup() function.

Series applied and queued up for -stable, thank you.