linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fib: avoid NULL dereference

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Date:   Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:55:49 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fib: avoid NULL dereference

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 08:49:14AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 7/6/18 8:28 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
> > index 5bc0c89e81e4..8d98c8162554 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
> > @@ -497,11 +497,11 @@ static void tnode_free(struct key_vector *tn)
> >  	struct callback_head *head = &tn_info(tn)->rcu;
> >  
> >  	while (head) {
> > +		tn = container_of(head, struct tnode, rcu)->kv;
> > +
> >  		head = head->next;
> >  		tnode_free_size += TNODE_SIZE(1ul << tn->bits);
> >  		node_free(tn);
> 
> you are changing tn before the above 2 calls are made on the tn passed in

As tn_info(tn) is container_of(kv, struct tnode, tn), the end result is
the same tn value, so this is not a problem.

Thanks,
Mark.