Re: [lvc-project] [PATCH] netfilter: ebtables: remove unnecessary NULL check

From: Florian Westphal
Date: Tue Jun 20 2023 - 12:38:26 EST


Igor Artemiev <Igor.A.Artemiev@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> In ebt_do_table() 'private->chainstack' cannot be NULL
> and the 'cs' pointer is dereferenced below, so it does not make
> sense to compare 'private->chainstack' with NULL.

? Why do you think that?

> + cs = private->chainstack[smp_processor_id()];

Looks like NULL deref to me. Did you test this?