Re: [PATCH for 4.9 01/39] net: core: Prevent from dereferencing null pointer when releasing SKB

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Sep 18 2017 - 02:40:57 EST


On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:19:36AM +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote:
> From: Myungho Jung <mhjungk@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 9899886d5e8ec5b343b1efe44f185a0e68dc6454 ]
>
> Added NULL check to make __dev_kfree_skb_irq consistent with kfree
> family of functions.
>
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195289
>
> Signed-off-by: Myungho Jung <mhjungk@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Is this a different series from your original XX/59 patch series that
you feel is ready to go into the stable tree, or are you still asking
for review for these before they get submitted?

thanks,

greg k-h