linux-kernel - [PATCH 12/27] staging: lustre: fix socklnd issues found by Klocwork Insight tool

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Date:	Wed,  2 Mar 2016 17:01:55 -0500
From:	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lustre Development List <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 12/27] staging: lustre: fix socklnd issues found by Klocwork Insight tool

From: Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@...el.com>

Null pointer 'best_iface' that comes from line 802 may be
dereferenced at line 832.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@...el.com>
Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-4629
Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/9386
Reviewed-by: John L. Hammond <john.hammond@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Isaac Huang <he.huang@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
---
 .../staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c    |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
index 2c83b95..a710541 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
@@ -804,6 +804,8 @@ ksocknal_select_ips(ksock_peer_t *peer, __u32 *peerips, int n_peerips)
 			ip = peer->ksnp_passive_ips[i];
 			best_iface = ksocknal_ip2iface(peer->ksnp_ni, ip);
 
+			/* peer passive ips are kept up to date */
+			LASSERT(best_iface);
 		} else {
 			/* choose a new interface */
 			LASSERT(i == peer->ksnp_n_passive_ips);
@@ -838,6 +840,8 @@ ksocknal_select_ips(ksock_peer_t *peer, __u32 *peerips, int n_peerips)
 				best_npeers = iface->ksni_npeers;
 			}
 
+			LASSERT(best_iface);
+
 			best_iface->ksni_npeers++;
 			ip = best_iface->ksni_ipaddr;
 			peer->ksnp_passive_ips[i] = ip;
-- 
1.7.1