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Message-ID: <20150414204133.GJ7682@obsidianresearch.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:41:33 -0600
From:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
To:	Erez Shitrit <erezsh@....mellanox.co.il>
Cc:	Honggang Li <honli@...hat.com>, Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>,
	sean.hefty@...el.com, hal.rosenstock@...il.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	davem@...emloft.net, Alex Estrin <alex.estrin@...el.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, edumazet@...gle.com,
	Erez Shitrit <erezsh@...lanox.com>, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com,
	maheshb@...gle.com, jbenc@...hat.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net, f.fainelli@...il.com,
	linux@...ck-us.net, andrew@...n.ch, sfeldma@...il.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com,
	"linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next 1/4] infiniband/ipoib: fix possible NULL
 pointer dereference in ipoib_get_iflink

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 07:30:03PM +0300, Erez Shitrit wrote:

> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
> > index 657b89b..11ea6e2 100644
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
> > @@ -846,7 +846,10 @@ static int ipoib_get_iflink(const struct net_device *dev)
> >  {
> >         struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> >
> > -       return priv->parent->ifindex;
> > +       if (priv && priv->parent)
> > +               return priv->parent->ifindex;
> > +       else
> > +               return 0;
> This will make parent interface to return 0 instead of its own ifindex.
> I would suggest write something like that:

Agree

> +       /* parent interface */
> +       if (!test_bit(IPOIB_FLAG_SUBINTERFACE, &priv->flags))
> +               return dev->ifindex;
> +
> +       /* child/vlan interface */
> +       if (!priv->parent)
> +               return -1;

Like was said for other drivers, I can't see how parent can be null
while IPOIB_FLAG_SUBINTERFACE is set. Drop the last if.

Erez, you basically rewrote this, please make a proper patch with the
Fixes and Reported-By credit for Honggang. Lets merge this through
Dave M's tree right away.

Thank you all

Jason
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