From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7052622fccb1efb850c6b55de477f65d03525a30 upstream. The cgroup_get_from_path() function never returns NULL, it returns error pointers. Update the error handling to match. Fixes: 7f3287db6543 ("netfilter: nft_socket: make cgroupsv2 matching work with namespaces") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/bbc0c4e0-05cc-4f44-8797-2f4b3920a820@stanley.mountain Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nft_socket.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/netfilter/nft_socket.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nft_socket.c @@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ static noinline int nft_socket_cgroup_su struct cgroup *cgrp = cgroup_get_from_path("/"); int level; - if (!cgrp) - return -ENOENT; + if (IS_ERR(cgrp)) + return PTR_ERR(cgrp); level = cgrp->level; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/netfilter-nft_socket-fix-a-null-vs-is_err-bug-in-nft_socket_cgroup_subtree_level.patch