linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging/lustre/lnet: fix potential null pointer dereference

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Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:19:59 -0400
From:	Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging/lustre/lnet: fix potential null pointer dereference

On Apr 27, 2014, at 6:05 PM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:

>> Reviewed-by: John L. Hammond <john.hammond@...el.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Isaac Huang <he.huang@...el.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
>> index 21d36ee..516f623 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
>> @@ -829,14 +829,14 @@ ksocknal_select_ips(ksock_peer_t *peer, __u32 *peerips, int n_peerips)
>> 				best_npeers = iface->ksni_npeers;
>> 			}
>> 
>> +			LASSERT(best_iface != NULL);
>> +
> 
> And this solves the problem how ???

This does not really solve anything.
Just moves the check to where it's actually going to do anything instead of the check being guarded by the NULL pointer access earlier on.
Could have been removed instead of course to just get an oops at all times.--
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