linux-kernel - Re: livepatch: robustify klp_register

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Date:	Thu, 7 Apr 2016 14:20:30 -0400
From:	Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
	Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: livepatch: robustify klp_register_patch() API error checking

+++ Jiri Kosina [07/04/16 18:06 +0200]:
>From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
>
>Commit 425595a7fc20 ("livepatch: reuse module loader code to write
>relocations") adds a possibility of dereferncing pointers supplied by the
>consumer of the livepatch API before sanity (NULL) checking them (patch
>and patch->mod).
>
>Spotted by smatch tool.
>
>Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>

Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>

Thank you Jiri!