netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: i40e: prevent access to uninitilized variables in i40e_tx_enable

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Date:	Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:00:30 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Vasily Averin <vvs@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...el.com>,
	Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@...el.com>,
	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: i40e: prevent access to uninitilized variables in i40e_tx_enable_csum()

On Saturday 30 January 2016 19:47:36 Vasily Averin wrote:
> Patch makes safe an access to 'oiph' and 'oudph' variables
> if they was not initilized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@...tuozzo.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
> index 47bd8b3..779f77e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
> @@ -2363,7 +2363,8 @@ static void i40e_tx_enable_csum(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 *tx_flags,
>                 }
>                 if ((tx_ring->flags & I40E_TXR_FLAGS_OUTER_UDP_CSUM) &&
>                     (l4_tunnel == I40E_TXD_CTX_UDP_TUNNELING)        &&
> -                   (*cd_tunneling & I40E_TXD_CTX_QW0_EXT_IP_MASK)) {
> +                   (*cd_tunneling & I40E_TXD_CTX_QW0_EXT_IP_MASK)   &&
> +                   oudph && oiph) {
>                         oudph->check = ~csum_tcpudp_magic(oiph->saddr,
>                                         oiph->daddr,
>                                         (skb->len - skb_transport_offset(skb)),

If we can actually get here with oudph==NULL or oiph==NULL, we should back
my patch instead and fix it another way.

In the version we have in net-next, that is not possible.

	Arnd