linux-kernel - [PATCH] xdp_rxq_info_user: Fix null pointer dereference. Replace malloc/memset with calloc.

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Message-Id: <20200612185328.4671-1-gaurav1086@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:53:27 -0400
From:   Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@...il.com>
To:     gaurav1086@...il.com, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org (open list:XDP (eXpress Data Path)),
        bpf@...r.kernel.org (open list:XDP (eXpress Data Path)),
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH] xdp_rxq_info_user: Fix null pointer dereference. Replace malloc/memset with calloc.

Memset on the pointer right after malloc can cause a
null pointer deference if it failed to allocate memory.
A simple fix is to replace malloc/memset with a calloc()

Fixes: 0fca931a6f21 ("samples/bpf: program demonstrating access to xdp_rxq_info")
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@...il.com>
---
 samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c | 13 +++----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c b/samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c
index 4fe47502ebed..caa4e7ffcfc7 100644
--- a/samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c
+++ b/samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c
@@ -198,11 +198,8 @@ static struct datarec *alloc_record_per_cpu(void)
 {
 	unsigned int nr_cpus = bpf_num_possible_cpus();
 	struct datarec *array;
-	size_t size;
 
-	size = sizeof(struct datarec) * nr_cpus;
-	array = malloc(size);
-	memset(array, 0, size);
+	array = calloc(nr_cpus, sizeof(struct datarec));
 	if (!array) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Mem alloc error (nr_cpus:%u)\n", nr_cpus);
 		exit(EXIT_FAIL_MEM);
@@ -214,11 +211,8 @@ static struct record *alloc_record_per_rxq(void)
 {
 	unsigned int nr_rxqs = bpf_map__def(rx_queue_index_map)->max_entries;
 	struct record *array;
-	size_t size;
 
-	size = sizeof(struct record) * nr_rxqs;
-	array = malloc(size);
-	memset(array, 0, size);
+	array = calloc(nr_rxqs, sizeof(struct record));
 	if (!array) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Mem alloc error (nr_rxqs:%u)\n", nr_rxqs);
 		exit(EXIT_FAIL_MEM);
@@ -232,8 +226,7 @@ static struct stats_record *alloc_stats_record(void)
 	struct stats_record *rec;
 	int i;
 
-	rec = malloc(sizeof(*rec));
-	memset(rec, 0, sizeof(*rec));
+	rec = calloc(1, sizeof(struct stats_record));
 	if (!rec) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Mem alloc error\n");
 		exit(EXIT_FAIL_MEM);
-- 
2.17.1