[PATCH] nvme-fc: fix double free of fabrics options when nvme_add_ctrl() fails

[Keith Busch]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 05:10:23PM +0200, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> It seems like Keith did prefer your patch, but as you said, your patch does
> not avoid a NULL pointer dereference in nvme_auth_free().

But you're replacing a NULL pointer dereference to a derefence to freed
memory. That should be fixed too, and I'm just saying checking a pointer
for NULL before dereferencing it is more clear than checking if a list
is empty.