nlmsg_cancel can accept NULL as its second argument, so for similarity, this patch extends genlmsg_cancel to be able to accept a NULL second argument as well. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- include/net/genetlink.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h index 8a64b81..b4c7c1c 100644 --- a/include/net/genetlink.h +++ b/include/net/genetlink.h @@ -195,7 +195,8 @@ static inline int genlmsg_end(struct sk_buff *skb, void *hdr) */ static inline void genlmsg_cancel(struct sk_buff *skb, void *hdr) { - nlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr - GENL_HDRLEN - NLMSG_HDRLEN); + if (hdr) + nlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr - GENL_HDRLEN - NLMSG_HDRLEN); } /** -- 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