netdev - Re: [PATCH] vhost: fix null pointer dereference in vhost_del_umem

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Date:   Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:56:10 +0300
From:   Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     mst@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost: fix null pointer dereference in vhost_del_umem_range

On 7/9/19, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>
> Date: Tue,  9 Jul 2019 13:42:51 +0200
>
>> @@ -962,7 +962,8 @@ static void vhost_del_umem_range(struct vhost_umem
>> *umem,
>>
>>  	while ((node = vhost_umem_interval_tree_iter_first(&umem->umem_tree,
>>  							   start, end)))
>> -		vhost_umem_free(umem, node);
>> +		if (node)
>> +			vhost_umem_free(umem, node);
>
> If 'node' is NULL we will not be in the body of the loop as per
> the while() condition.

The patch is incorrect, please ignore

>
> How did you test this?
>