linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] rxrpc: Fix potential NULL-pointer exception

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] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 03 Mar 2017 09:48:40 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dhowells@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rxrpc: Fix potential NULL-pointer exception

From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 23:26:13 +0000

> Fix a potential NULL-pointer exception in rxrpc_do_sendmsg().  The call
> state check that I added should have gone into the else-body of the
> if-statement where we actually have a call to check.
> 
> Found by CoverityScan CID#1414316 ("Dereference after null check").
> 
> Fixes: 540b1c48c37a ("rxrpc: Fix deadlock between call creation and sendmsg/recvmsg")
> Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>

Applied.