netdev - RE: [PATCH] tipc: Improve exception handling in tipc_bcast

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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 00:28:01 +0000
From: Tung Quang Nguyen <tung.q.nguyen@...tech.com.au>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>,
	"tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net"
	<tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org"
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org"
	<kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Jon
 Maloy <jmaloy@...hat.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Ying Xue
	<ying.xue@...driver.com>
CC: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] tipc: Improve exception handling in tipc_bcast_init()

>Subject: [PATCH] tipc: Improve exception handling in tipc_bcast_init()
>
>From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
>Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 12:20:06 +0100
>
>The kfree() function was called in two cases by the tipc_bcast_init() function during error handling even if the passed variable
>contained a null pointer.
>This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
kfree() validates the pointer before doing actual memory free. Your patch is not necessary.