netdev - Re: [PATCH net] libceph: osdmap: Fix some NULL dereferences

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:23:22 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
Cc:     "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@...hat.com>, Sage Weil <sage@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Ceph Development <ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] libceph: osdmap: Fix some NULL dereferences

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 06:13:22PM +0200, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> I applied osdmap_apply_incremental() hunk and fixed a similar bug in
> osdmap_decode() (it's a not NULL deref, that's why smatch didn't catch
> it).
> 

No...  :/  Smatch complained about it, but I somehow marked it as done
yesterday without sending a patch.  Thanks for catching that.

The Smatch check is just looking for places where we do ERR_PTR(0) or
ERR_PTR(valid_ptr).  That can be intentional, so there is some hand
reviewing involved.

regards,
dan carpenter