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From: "santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com" <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 17:18:25 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDS: IB: NULL dereference on error in rds_ib_alloc_frmr()
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To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Avinash Repaka <avinash.repaka@oracle.com>, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, rds-devel@oss.oracle.com, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>

On 6/14/17 3:39 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We accidentally return ERR_PTR(0) if ib_alloc_mr() fails.  The caller
> is expecting error pointers so it results in a NULL dereference.
>
> Fixes: 1659185fb4d0 ("RDS: IB: Support Fastreg MR (FRMR) memory registration mode")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>
Thanks Dan for fix.

Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>

You haven't copied netdev. Can you please resend the patch
with my ack on netdev so that Dave can pick it up.