From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>,
Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@broadcom.com>,
"James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: lpfc: fix pointer defereference before it is null checked issue
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:14:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1zh3cwwi5.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201118131345.460631-1-colin.king@canonical.com> (Colin King's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:13:45 +0000")
Colin,
> There is a null check on pointer lpfc_cmd after the pointer has been
> dereferenced when pointers rdata and ndlp are initialized at the start
> of the function. Fix this by only assigning rdata and ndlp after the
> pointer lpfc_cmd has been null checked.
Applied to 5.11/scsi-staging, thanks!
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-20 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-18 13:13 Colin King
2020-11-19 20:53 ` James Smart
2020-11-20 3:14 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2020-11-24 3:58 ` Martin K. Petersen
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