linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] qedr: return -EINVAL if pd is null and avoid null ptr dereference

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Date:   Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:25:06 -0500
From:   Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@...ium.com>,
        Ram Amrani <Ram.Amrani@...ium.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qedr: return -EINVAL if pd is null and avoid null ptr
 dereference

On 10/18/2016 2:39 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Currently, if pd is null then we hit a null pointer derference
> on accessing pd->pd_id.  Instead of just printing an error message
> we should also return -EINVAL immediately.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied, thanks.

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Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
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