if local is NULL pointer, and the following access of local's dev will trigger panic, which is same as BUG_ON
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongq...@baidu.com> --- net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c b/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c index 2e5e7a41d8ef..9bec22e3e9e8 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c @@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ static struct net_device *get_dpdev(const struct datapath *dp) struct vport *local; local = ovs_vport_ovsl(dp, OVSP_LOCAL); - BUG_ON(!local); return local->dev; } -- 2.16.2