Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: mvm: Fix potential NULL dereference for sta

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2022-01-21 at 12:14 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> The recent fix for NULL sta in iwl_mvm_get_tx_rate() may still hit a
> potential NULL dereference, as iwl_mvm_sta_from_mac80211() is called
> unconditionally (although this doesn't seem happening, practically
> seen, thanks to the compiler optimization).
> 

No objection to the patch, but I think the description isn't quite
right?

static inline struct iwl_mvm_sta *
iwl_mvm_sta_from_mac80211(struct ieee80211_sta *sta)
{
        return (void *)sta->drv_priv;
}

looks like a dereference, but I _think_

struct ieee80211_sta {
	[...]

        /* must be last */
        u8 drv_priv[] __aligned(sizeof(void *));
};


means it's just an address calculation, i.e. the same as if we had

	return (void *)((u8 *)sta + offsetof(typeof(*sta), drv_priv));

no?

I guess technically it's still UB doing calculations on a NULL pointer,
but practically that's going to work.

Anyway, no objections :)

johannes