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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlxfw: fix a NULL dereference
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:33:08 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:41:52 +0300

> If we hit this error path we end up returning ERR_PTR(0) which is NULL.
> The caller is not expecting that so it results in a NULL dereference.
> 
> Fixes: 410ed13cae39 ("Add the mlxfw module for Mellanox firmware flash process")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Applied.