Re: [PATCH linux-next 3/4] macvlan: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in macvlan_dev_get_iflink

Nicolas Dichtel
2015-04-14T15:35:12Z

Le 14/04/2015 17:26, Patrick McHardy a écrit :
> On 14.04, Honggang Li wrote:
[snip]
>> - return vlan->lowerdev->ifindex;
>> + if (vlan && vlan->lowerdev)
>> + return vlan->lowerdev->ifindex;
>
> That is completely useless. vlan (=netdev_priv) can not be NULL as
> netdev_priv() never returns NULL and vlan->lowerdev is always valid
> because a macvlan wouldn't make much sense otherwise.
>
And I suspect that it is the same for ipvlan and dsa.