netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: return next obj by passing pos + 1 into sctp_transport_get

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Date:   Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:41:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: return next obj by passing pos + 1 into
 sctp_transport_get_idx

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 17:49:08 +0800

> In sctp_for_each_transport, pos is used to save how many objs it has
> dumped. Now it gets the last obj by sctp_transport_get_idx, then gets
> the next obj by sctp_transport_get_next.
> 
> The issue is that in the meanwhile if some objs in transport hashtable
> are removed and the objs nums are less than pos, sctp_transport_get_idx
> would return NULL and hti.walker.tbl is NULL as well. At this moment
> it should stop hti, instead of continue getting the next obj. Or it
> would cause a NULL pointer dereference in sctp_transport_get_next.
> 
> This patch is to pass pos + 1 into sctp_transport_get_idx to get the
> next obj directly, even if pos > objs nums, it would return NULL and
> stop hti.
> 
> Fixes: 626d16f50f39 ("sctp: export some apis or variables for sctp_diag and reuse some for proc")
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.