We dereference "sk" unconditionally elsewhere in the function. This was left over from: b30bd282 "ip6_xmit: remove unnecessary NULL ptr check". According to that commit message, "the sk argument to ip6_xmit is never NULL nowadays since the skb->priority assigment expects a valid socket." Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c index 75d5ef8..d26c6ae 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -218,8 +218,7 @@ int ip6_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi *fl, } kfree_skb(skb); skb = skb2; - if (sk) - skb_set_owner_w(skb, sk); + skb_set_owner_w(skb, sk); } if (opt->opt_flen) ipv6_push_frag_opts(skb, opt, &proto); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
