netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: rds: Fix possible null-pointer dereferences in rds_rdma_cm_event_handler

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Date:   Fri, 26 Jul 2019 07:24:31 -0700
From:   santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com
To:     Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        rds-devel@....oracle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: rds: Fix possible null-pointer dereferences in
 rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn()

On 7/26/19 7:17 AM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> In rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn(), there are some if statements to
> check whether conn is NULL, such as on lines 65, 96 and 112.
> But conn is not checked before being used on line 108:
>      trans->cm_connect_complete(conn, event);
> and on lines 140-143:
>      rdsdebug("DISCONNECT event - dropping connection "
>              "%pI6c->%pI6c\n", &conn->c_laddr,
>              &conn->c_faddr);
>      rds_conn_drop(conn);
> 
> Thus, possible null-pointer dereferences may occur.
> 
> To fix these bugs, conn is checked before being used.
> 
> These bugs are found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by us.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
> ---
That's possible. Looks good.

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