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

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Date:   Fri, 12 Jun 2020 15:58:06 -0700
From:   John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
To:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@...il.com>
Cc:     brouer@...hat.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>,
        "(open list:XDP \\(eXpress Data Path\\))" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org (open list:XDP \(eXpress Data Path\)),
        "(open list:XDP \\(eXpress Data Path\\) open list)" 
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xdp_rxq_info_user: Fix null pointer dereference. Replace
 malloc/memset with calloc.

Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:53:27 -0400
> Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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>
> 
> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
> 

Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>