[lvc-project] [PATCH] netfilter: ebtables: remove unnecessary NULL check

[Igor A. Artemiev]

On 6/20/23 19:38, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Igor Artemiev <Igor.A.Artemiev �� mcst.ru> wrote:
>> In ebt_do_table() 'private->chainstack' cannot be NULL
>> and the 'cs' pointer is dereferenced below, so it does not make
>> sense to compare 'private->chainstack' with NULL.
> ?  Why do you think that?
>
The 'cs' pointer is dereferenced below without checking, as it is 
assumed to always be initialized with 
'private->chainstack[smp_processor_id()]'.
>> +	cs = private->chainstack[smp_processor_id()];
> Looks like NULL deref to me.  Did you test this?
>
No, I didn't test this.

Thanks,
Igor