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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Nigel Christian <nigel.l.christian@gmail.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 09:11:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210602061143.GD1955@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YLalYt3m8jzoL4ie@fedora>

On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 05:23:46PM -0400, Nigel Christian wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 11:50:06PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 10:51:23PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > The other thing which might be interesting is if you pass a NULL
> > > to IS_ERR() and then dereference the NULL then print a warning about
> > > that.  This has a lot of overlaps with some of my existing checks, but
> > > it's still a new idea so it belongs in a separate check.  It's fine and
> > > good even if one bug triggers a lot of different warnings.  I'll write
> > > that, hang on, brb.
> > 
> > 100% untested.  :)  I'll test it tonight.
> 
> Ha, you make it look easy. Let me know if I can help with testing
> Should I just add below to my smatch and recompile,
> or is there an experimental branch to build from?
> 

Yeah.  :)  Copy and paste that to check_null_deref_after_IS_ERR.c and
add it to the check_list.h file then recompile.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-02  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-01  9:25 [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL Dan Carpenter
2021-06-01 10:52 ` Mina Almasry
2021-06-01 17:54 ` Nigel Christian
2021-06-01 19:00   ` Dan Carpenter
2021-06-01 19:51     ` Dan Carpenter
2021-06-01 20:50       ` Dan Carpenter
2021-06-01 21:23         ` Nigel Christian
2021-06-02  6:11           ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2021-06-02 14:47         ` Dan Carpenter
2021-06-02 16:01           ` Nigel Christian
2021-06-04 13:34           ` Dan Carpenter
2021-06-04 14:14             ` Nigel Christian
2021-06-04 14:21               ` Dan Carpenter
2021-06-02 14:22       ` Dan Carpenter
2021-06-02 15:57         ` Nigel Christian

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