net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR

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    "title": "net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR After the patch in the \"Fixes\" tag, the allocation of the \"reply\" skb can happen either before or after locking the ovs_mutex. However, error cleanups still follow the classical reversed order, assuming \"reply\" is allocated before locking: it is freed after unlocking. If \"reply\" allocation happens after locking the mutex and it fails, \"reply\" is left with an ERR_PTR, and execution jumps to the correspondent cleanup stage which will try to free an invalid pointer. Fix this by setting the pointer to NULL after having saved its error value.",
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