netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: tipc: Fix a possible null-pointer dereference in tipc_publ

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Date:   Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:05:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     baijiaju1990@...il.com
Cc:     jon.maloy@...csson.com, ying.xue@...driver.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: tipc: Fix a possible null-pointer dereference in
 tipc_publ_purge()

From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:20:21 +0800

> @@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ static void tipc_publ_purge(struct net *net, struct publication *publ, u32 addr)
>  		       publ->key);
>  	}
>  
> -	kfree_rcu(p, rcu);
> +	if (p)
> +		kfree_rcu(p, rcu);

Please fix your automated tools if that is what found this, because as
others have nodes kfree_rcu() can take a NULL pointer argument just
fine.

Thank you.