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Message-ID: <4103701f-27f0-f856-7aae-97420b8236d2@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 11:33:45 -0800
From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
Cc: kjlu@....edu, Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
target-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: RDMA/srpt: Fix incorrect pointer dereference
On 12/17/19 11:26 AM, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> In srpt_queue_response(), the rdma channel ch is first
> dereferenced and then checked for NULL. This renders the
> assertion ineffective. This patch removes the assertion and
> avoids potential NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c | 8 +++++---
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
> index 23c782e3d49a..bbc6729c81c0 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
> @@ -2803,15 +2803,17 @@ static void srpt_queue_response(struct se_cmd *cmd)
> struct srpt_send_ioctx *ioctx =
> container_of(cmd, struct srpt_send_ioctx, cmd);
> struct srpt_rdma_ch *ch = ioctx->ch;
> - struct srpt_device *sdev = ch->sport->sdev;
> struct ib_send_wr send_wr, *first_wr = &send_wr;
> - struct ib_sge sge;
> enum srpt_command_state state;
> + struct srpt_device *sdev;
> int resp_len, ret, i;
> + struct ib_sge sge;
> u8 srp_tm_status;
>
> - BUG_ON(!ch);
> + if (WARN_ON(!ch))
> + return;
>
> + sdev = ch->sport->sdev;
> state = ioctx->state;
> switch (state) {
> case SRPT_STATE_NEW:
Instead of making all these changes, please remove the BUG_ON(!ch)
statement. If the condition ioctx->ch == NULL would ever be encountered
then the call trace reported on the console will be sufficient to figure
out what happened.
Thanks,
Bart.
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