Re: [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR

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Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Thu,  4 Jun 2026 14:19:46 +0200 you wrote:
> After the patch in the "Fixes" tag, the allocation of the "reply" skb
> can happen either before or after locking the ovs_mutex.
> 
> However, error cleanups still follow the classical reversed order,
> assuming "reply" is allocated before locking: it is freed after unlocking.
> 
> If "reply" allocation happens after locking the mutex and it fails,
> "reply" is left with an ERR_PTR, and execution jumps to the correspondent
> cleanup stage which will try to free an invalid pointer.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/ee30dd2909d8

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