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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't potentially dereference NULL in
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From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:57:16 +0100 (CET)

> nla_nest_start() may return NULL. If it does then we'll blow up in 
> nla_nest_end() when we dereference the pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>

Applied.