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

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Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 08:58:31 -0700
From:   John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
To:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
CC:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bpf: fix oops on allocation failure

On 08/25/2017 01:47 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 08/25/2017 10:27 PM, 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>
> 
> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>

Thanks.

Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>