netdev - Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v3 net] rose: Fix Null pointer dereference in rose_send

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Message-ID: <20201110194518.GA97719@Thinkpad>
Date:   Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:15:18 +0530
From:   Anmol Karn <anmol.karan123@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     ralf@...ux-mips.org, davem@...emloft.net, saeed@...nel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hams@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
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Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v3 net] rose: Fix Null pointer
 dereference in rose_send_frame()

Hello Sir,

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 09:58:15AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sun,  8 Nov 2020 00:48:35 +0530 Anmol Karn wrote:
> > +			dev = rose_dev_get(dest);
> 
> this calls dev_hold internally, you never release that reference in
> case ..neigh->dev is NULL
> 
> > +			if (rose_loopback_neigh->dev && dev) {

Ah, I missed to `dev_put()` the `dev` after checking for, if neigh->dev is NULL,
I will fix it soon and send another version.

Thank you for review.


Anmol