Subject: Re: [PATCH][INET_DIAG]: Fix inet_diag_lock_handler error path

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:52:47 -0800 (PST)

From: Herbert Xu <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:03:10 +1100

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:20:50AM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Fixes: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9825
> > 
> > The inet_diag_lock_handler function uses ERR_PTR to encode errors but
> > its callers were testing against NULL.
> 
> Thanks for catching this Arnaldo!

Applied and queued up for 2.6.24-stable, thanks!