Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: don't return garbage pointer on modprobe failure

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On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 02:06:08PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> request_module may return a positive error result from modprobe,
> if we cast this to ERR_PTR this returns a garbage result (it passes
> IS_ERR checks).
> 
> Fix it by ignoring modprobe return values entirely, just retry the
> table lookup instead.

Applied, thanks Florian.
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