Re: [PATCH][netfilter] Avoid a possible NULL pointer deref in recent_seq_open()

From: Patrick McHardy
Date: Mon Jul 30 2007 - 08:28:59 EST


Jesper Juhl wrote:
> There is a small problem in
> net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_recent.c::recent_seq_open().
>
> If the call to seq_open() returns != 0 then the code calls
> kfree(st) but then on the very next line proceeds to
> dereference the pointer - not good.


Applied, thanks Jesper.

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