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Date:	Fri, 22 Apr 2016 12:06:11 +0200
From:	Lino Sanfilippo <lsanfil@...vell.com>
To:	Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Lance Richardson <lrichard@...hat.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 1/9] macsec: add missing NULL check after kmalloc



On 22.04.2016 11:48, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> 2016-04-22, 11:35:03 +0200, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 22.04.2016 11:28, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
>>> Fixes: c09440f7dcb3 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver")
>>> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
>>> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/net/macsec.c | 4 ++--
>>>    1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/macsec.c b/drivers/net/macsec.c
>>> index 84d3e5ca8817..f691030ee3df 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
>>> @@ -1622,8 +1622,8 @@ static int macsec_add_rxsa(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
>>>    	}
>>>
>>>    	rx_sa = kmalloc(sizeof(*rx_sa), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> -	if (init_rx_sa(rx_sa, nla_data(tb_sa[MACSEC_SA_ATTR_KEY]), secy->key_len,
>>> -		       secy->icv_len)) {
>>> +	if (!rx_sa || init_rx_sa(rx_sa, nla_data(tb_sa[MACSEC_SA_ATTR_KEY]),
>>> +				 secy->key_len, secy->icv_len)) {
>>>    		rtnl_unlock();
>>>    		return -ENOMEM;
>>>    	}
>>
>>
>> In case that kmalloc was successful and init_rx_sa failed, the allocated memory should be freed, shouldnt it?.
>
> Yep, Lance pointed that out in v1:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=146108796406155
>
> But since we have the same code with init_tx_sa, I decided to fix both
> in a separate patch (7/9 in this set).
>

Ah ok, sorry about the noise then :)

Regards,
Lino

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