From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsi...@embeddedor.com> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:26:16 -0600
> It seems that the intention of the code is to null check the value > returned by function genlmsg_put. But the current code is null > checking the address of the pointer that holds the value returned > by genlmsg_put. > > Fix this by properly null checking the value returned by function > genlmsg_put in order to avoid a pontential null pointer dereference. > > Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1461561 ("Dereference before null check") > Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1461562 ("Dereference null return value") > Fixes: 96fbc13d7e77 ("openvswitch: Add meter infrastructure") > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsi...@embeddedor.com> Applied.