netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bpf: fix oops on allocation failure

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Date:   Fri, 25 Aug 2017 18:05:58 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bpf: fix oops on allocation failure

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:27:14PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> "err" is set to zero if bpf_map_area_alloc() fails so it means we return
> ERR_PTR(0) which is NULL.  The caller, find_and_alloc_map(), is not
> expecting NULL returns and will oops.
> 
> Fixes: 174a79ff9515 ("bpf: sockmap with sk redirect support")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

good catch. Thanks!
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>