Jiecheng Wu <jasonwood2031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Function chtls_close_conn() defined in drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_cm.c calls alloc_skb() to allocate memory for struct sk_buff which is dereferenced immediately. As alloc_skb() may return NULL on failure, this code piece may cause NULL pointer dereference bug. Please add a sign-off. You can refer to Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt