lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <CAFo99gYEf6GrAjuWNc5+DEEuBV82eejRuy7QtiJuLD+sRccLRA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 17 May 2014 15:21:56 +0200
From:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@...itl.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Masood Mehmood <ody.guru@...il.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix for possible null pointer dereference in node.c

Okay, everyone agrees with Dan..?

I have made a new patch, which does not check if hnode is NULL.



Best regards
Rickard Strandqvist


2014-05-16 0:43 GMT+02:00 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:53:53PM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
>> There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.
>>
>
> None of the callers pass in a NULL hnode so there isn't actually a NULL
> dereference here.  You could just remove the check.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>

View attachment "0001-Fix-for-possible-null-pointer-dereferenc.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (1021 bytes)

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ