From: Ying Xue Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 02:02:41 +0000 (+0800) Subject: tipc: fix a potential oops X-Git-Tag: fixes-against-v3.18-rc2~81^2~199 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cc086fcf92996965f0dcf05c6641d65381705266;p=pandora-kernel.git tipc: fix a potential oops Commit 6c9808ce09f7 ("tipc: remove port_lock") accidentally involves a potential bug: when tipc socket instance(tsk) is not got with given reference number in tipc_sk_get(), tsk is set to NULL. Subsequently we jump to exit label where to decrease socket reference counter pointed by tsk pointer in tipc_sk_put(). However, As now tsk is NULL, oops may happen because of touching a NULL pointer. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue Acked-by: Erik Hugne Acked-by: Jon Maloy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-diff-tree failed