Hi, Static analysis with Coverity on linux-next has found a potential issue with the following commit: commit 857b46027d6f91150797295752581b7155b9d0e1 Author: Stéphane Veyret <sveyret@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat May 25 15:30:58 2019 +0200 netfilter: nft_ct: add ct expectations support Specifically in function nft_ct_expect_obj_eval)() in the following code: + help = nfct_help(ct); + if (!help) + help = nf_ct_helper_ext_add(ct, GFP_ATOMIC); + + if (help->expecting[NF_CT_EXPECT_CLASS_DEFAULT] >= priv->size) { + regs->verdict.code = NFT_BREAK; + return; + } The call to nf_ct_helper_ext_add can potentially return NULL, however, this is not being checked and pointer 'help' is being dereferenced even though it potentially can be null. Colin