linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] cifs: smb2pdu: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

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Date:   Wed, 04 Apr 2018 12:18:00 +0200
From:   Aurélien Aptel <aaptel@...e.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>,
        Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@...hat.com>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>
Cc:     linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, samba-technical@...ts.samba.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddeor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cifs: smb2pdu: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com> writes:
> tcon->ses is being dereferenced before it is null checked, hence
> there is a potential null pointer dereference.
>
> Fix this by moving the pointer dereference after tcon->ses has
> been properly null checked.
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1467426 ("Dereference before null check")
> Fixes: 93012bf98416 ("cifs: add server->vals->header_preamble_size")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>

Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@...e.com>

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