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Date:	Wed, 25 Dec 2013 20:25:28 +0800
From:	Wang Weidong <weidong1991.wang@...il.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
CC:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org" <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sctp: check dst 'NULL' before use it in, sctp_packet_transmit

From: Wang Weidong <wangweidong1@...wei.com>

On 2013/12/25 18:25, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 12/25/2013 08:47 AM, Wang Weidong wrote:
>> skb_dst_set will use dst, if dst is NULL although is not a problem,
>> then goto the no_route and free nskb, so do the skb_dst_set is pointless.
>> so check dst before use it. Remove the unnecessary initialization as well.
>
> Please also cc linux-sctp as you did before!
>
> Just went through the code, only reading from your subject title it first
> sounded like a NULL pointer dereference, but in fact the code is fine and
> nothing is wrong with it. I'd suggest you should make the subject sound
> more "harmless" to not confuse people, imho, since all you do here is some
> cleanup and rearrangement. "Use" sounds to me as dereferencing dst that is
> NULL.
>
Sorry for that. I will fix the subject title and cc to linux-sctp.

Regards,
Wang

>> Signed-off-by: Wang Weidong <wangweidong1@...wei.com>
>> ---
>>   net/sctp/output.c | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/sctp/output.c b/net/sctp/output.c
>> index 3be70a4..9b76d62 100644
>> --- a/net/sctp/output.c
>> +++ b/net/sctp/output.c
>> @@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ int sctp_packet_transmit(struct sctp_packet *packet)
>>       int err = 0;
>>       int padding;        /* How much padding do we need?  */
>>       __u8 has_data = 0;
>> -    struct dst_entry *dst = tp->dst;
>> +    struct dst_entry *dst;
>>       unsigned char *auth = NULL;    /* pointer to auth in skb data */
>>
>>       pr_debug("%s: packet:%p\n", __func__, packet);
>> @@ -420,9 +420,9 @@ int sctp_packet_transmit(struct sctp_packet *packet)
>>           }
>>       }
>>       dst = dst_clone(tp->dst);
>> -    skb_dst_set(nskb, dst);
>>       if (!dst)
>>           goto no_route;
>
> Nit: you should set a newline here.
>
Nice. Thanks.

>> +    skb_dst_set(nskb, dst);
>>
>>       /* Build the SCTP header.  */
>>       sh = (struct sctphdr *)skb_push(nskb, sizeof(struct sctphdr));
>>
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