The prp_fill_rct() function can fail. In that situation, it frees the skb and returns NULL. Meanwhile on the success path, it returns the original skb. So it's straight forward to fix bug by using the returned value. Fixes: 451d8123f897 ("net: prp: add packet handling support") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/hsr/hsr_forward.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/hsr/hsr_forward.c b/net/hsr/hsr_forward.c index b71dab630a87..80cdc6f6b34c 100644 --- a/net/hsr/hsr_forward.c +++ b/net/hsr/hsr_forward.c @@ -342,9 +342,7 @@ struct sk_buff *prp_create_tagged_frame(struct hsr_frame_info *frame, skb = skb_copy_expand(frame->skb_std, 0, skb_tailroom(frame->skb_std) + HSR_HLEN, GFP_ATOMIC); - prp_fill_rct(skb, frame, port); - - return skb; + return prp_fill_rct(skb, frame, port); } static void hsr_deliver_master(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, -- 2.42.0