netdev - Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix NULL pointer dereferences

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Date:   Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:27:59 +0200
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Cc:     Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix NULL pointer dereferences

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Dominique Martinet
<asmadeus@...ewreck.org> wrote:
> Tomas Bortoli wrote on Thu, Jul 26, 2018:
>> In p9_fd_create_tcp() and p9_fd_create_unix() it is possible to get
>> a NULL value in the addr parameter. Return -EINVAL in such cases.
>
> Let's refuse that at much higher level, like v9fs_mount() in
> fs/9p/vfs_super.c
>
> I can't think of any valid reason for dev_name to be NULL, it's the
> target IP or virtio handle.

But I think trans=fd allows NULL addr today, no?