linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] taprio: add null check on sched_nest to avoid potential null pointer dereference

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Date:   Mon, 6 May 2019 10:34:28 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] taprio: add null check on sched_nest to avoid
 potential null pointer dereference

On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 2:50 PM Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> The call to nla_nest_start_noflag can return a null pointer and currently
> this is not being checked and this can lead to a null pointer dereference
> when the null pointer sched_nest is passed to function nla_nest_end. Fix
> this by adding in a null pointer check.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return value")
> Fixes: a3d43c0d56f1 ("taprio: Add support adding an admin schedule")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

Thanks.