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From: Tuo Li <islituo@gmail.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: ayush.sawal@chelsio.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, almasrymina@google.com, dtatulea@nvidia.com,
	jacob.e.keller@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, baijiaju1990@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] chcr_ktls: fix a possible null-pointer dereference in chcr_ktls_dev_add()
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:30:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e315da5-adcf-4f04-b0b5-4b416164ba3d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241108133425.GC4507@kernel.org>

On 2024/11/8 21:34, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 07:32:31AM +0800, Tuo Li wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply! It is very helpful.
>> Any further feedback will be appreciated.
> 
> Hi Tuo Li,
> 
> 1. Please don't top-post on Linux mailing lists.

Apologies for the top-posting; I will avoid that in the future.

> 2. I think you need to do some careful analysis to understand
>    if the condition you are concerned about can occur or not:
>    can u_ctx ever be NULL in these code paths?

I have carefully reviewed the code paths, but I could not find any instance
where the variable u_ctx is assigned a NULL value. It might be a defensive
check to handle potential NULL values.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-14 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-30 13:23 [PATCH] chcr_ktls: fix a possible null-pointer dereference in chcr_ktls_dev_add() Tuo Li
2024-11-04 16:07 ` Simon Horman
2024-11-04 23:32   ` Tuo Li
2024-11-08 13:34     ` Simon Horman
2024-11-14 10:30       ` Tuo Li [this message]
2024-11-08 15:00 ` Markus Elfring
2024-11-14 10:37   ` Tuo Li
2024-11-14 12:26     ` Markus Elfring
2024-11-14 14:22       ` Tuo Li
2024-11-15  9:15         ` Markus Elfring

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