[ovs-dev] [PATCH] openvswitch: meter: fix NULL pointer dereference in ovs_meter_cmd_reply_start

[David Miller]

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva at embeddedor.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:26:16 -0600

> It seems that the intention of the code is to null check the value
> returned by function genlmsg_put. But the current code is null
> checking the address of the pointer that holds the value returned
> by genlmsg_put.
> 
> Fix this by properly null checking the value returned by function
> genlmsg_put in order to avoid a pontential null pointer dereference.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1461561 ("Dereference before null check")
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1461562 ("Dereference null return value")
> Fixes: 96fbc13d7e77 ("openvswitch: Add meter infrastructure")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva at embeddedor.com>

Applied.