netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bpf: dev_map_alloc() shouldn't return NULL

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Date:   Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:23:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:     ast@...nel.org, john.fastabend@...il.com, daniel@...earbox.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bpf: dev_map_alloc() shouldn't return NULL

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 10:40:04 +0300

> We forgot to set the error code on two error paths which means that we
> return ERR_PTR(0) which is NULL.  The caller, find_and_alloc_map(), is
> not expecting that and will have a NULL dereference.
> 
> Fixes: 546ac1ffb70d ("bpf: add devmap, a map for storing net device references")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks Dan.