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[41.210.143.51]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-488d67b4903sm153281125e9.5.2026.04.14.01.00.06 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:00:02 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Shyam Sunder Reddy Padira , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, ethantidmore06@gmail.com, nayana.mariyappa@gmail.com, s9430939@naver.com, kees@kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: rtl8723bs: os_dep: avoid NULL pointer dereference in rtw_cbuf_alloc Message-ID: References: <20260413224417.5674-2-shyamsunderreddypadira@gmail.com> <20260414071308.4781-2-shyamsunderreddypadira@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 10:55:56AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 10:46:13AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 12:43:06PM +0530, Shyam Sunder Reddy Padira wrote: > > > The return value of kzalloc_flex() is used without > > > ensuring that the allocation succeeded, and the > > > pointer is dereferenced unconditionally. > > > > > > Guard the access to the allocated structure to > > > avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference if the > > > allocation fails. > > > > You have a procedural issue here: please avoid sending a new patch version in > > the same email thread. It makes things harder to follow. For example, I usually > > mark the entire thread as read if I see some comments and don't want to go into > > the details. It effectively means that I will never see the new version that > > already was in the same thread! > > > > ... > > > > > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c > > > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c > > > @@ -194,7 +194,8 @@ struct rtw_cbuf *rtw_cbuf_alloc(u32 size) > > > struct rtw_cbuf *cbuf; > > > > > > cbuf = kzalloc_flex(*cbuf, bufs, size); > > > - cbuf->size = size; > > > + if (cbuf) > > > + cbuf->size = size; > > > > > > return cbuf; > > > > Now to the code. This is still buggy. The problem is that the size is not > > validated and when it's 0, the same issue (dereference of invalid pointer) > > will happen. > > > > Dan, JFYI k*alloc*(0) returns not NULL and not valid pointer. > > kzalloc_flex() basically can't return the ZERO_SIZE pointer. I meant ZERO_SIZE_PTR. regards, dan carpenter