netdev - Re: [iproute PATCH v2 2/5] nstat: Fix for potential NULL pointer dereference

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Message-ID: <20170818092828.74ddf749@xeon-e3>
Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2017 09:28:28 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH v2 2/5] nstat: Fix for potential NULL pointer
 dereference

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:09:28 +0200
Phil Sutter <phil@....cc> wrote:

> If the string at 'p' contains neither space not newline, 'p' will become
> NULL. Make sure this isn't the case before dereferencing it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>

Why not fix the parsing code instead. Other places here call abort().