From: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>,
Vlad Buslov <vladbu@nvidia.com>,
Ariel Levkovich <lariel@mellanox.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] net/mlx5e: Fix potential null pointer dereference
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:22:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25336478fe5bca68b6c7d2c37766a9f98f6c7ad1.camel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200925164913.GA18472@embeddedor>
On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 11:49 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Calls to kzalloc() and kvzalloc() should be null-checked
> in order to avoid any potential failures. In this case,
> a potential null pointer dereference.
>
> Fix this by adding null checks for _parse_attr_ and _flow_
> right after allocation.
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1497154 ("Dereference before null check")
> Fixes: c620b772152b ("net/mlx5: Refactor tc flow attributes
> structure")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
> ---
>
Applied to net-next-mlx5.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-28 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-25 16:49 Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-09-28 7:38 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-28 23:22 ` Saeed Mahameed [this message]
2020-09-29 13:13 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
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