Re: [patch -master] netfilter: xt_CT: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL

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On 30 July 2015 at 04:57, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 01:42:28AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> We recently changed this from nf_conntrack_alloc() to nf_ct_tmpl_alloc()
>> so the error handling needs to changed to check for NULL instead of
>> IS_ERR().
>>
>> Fixes: 0838aa7fcfcd ('netfilter: fix netns dependencies with conntrack templates')
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied, thanks.
>
> I have also appended this chunk, since synproxy is also affected:
>
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c
> @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static int __net_init synproxy_net_init(struct net *net)
>         int err = -ENOMEM;
>
>         ct = nf_ct_tmpl_alloc(net, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> -       if (IS_ERR(ct)) {
> +       if (!ct) {
>                 err = PTR_ERR(ct);
>                 goto err1;
>         }

Does PTR_ERR() implicitly interpret NULL as -ENOMEM? Seems like the
fix applied here is a little different from the xt_CT fix.
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