netdev - Re: [PATCH] RDS: null pointer dereference in rds_atomic_free

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Message-ID: <0a3272a7-035b-edc8-c01d-79bffefb70a3@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 3 Jan 2018 13:19:27 -0800
From:   Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:     simo.ghannam@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        rds-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDS: null pointer dereference in rds_atomic_free_op

On 1/3/2018 1:06 PM, simo.ghannam@...il.com wrote:
> From: Mohamed Ghannam <simo.ghannam@...il.com>
> 
> set rm->atomic.op_active to 0 when rds_pin_pages() fails
> or the user supplied address is invalid,
> this prevents a NULL pointer usage in rds_atomic_free_op()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mohamed Ghannam <simo.ghannam@...il.com>
> ---
Good catch !!

Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>