Hello: This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master): On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 03:01:29 +0500 you wrote: > nlh is being checked for validtity two times when it is dereferenced in > this function. Check for validity again when updating the flags through > nlh pointer to make the dereferencing safe. > > CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Addresses-Coverity: ("NULL pointer dereference") > Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <musamaanjum@xxxxxxxxx> > > [...] Here is the summary with links: - net: ipv6: check for validity before dereferencing cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/864db232dc70 You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html