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From: Shaobo <shaobo@cs.utah.edu>
To: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ulf.hansson@linaro.org, linus.walleij@linaro.org,
	adrian.hunter@intel.com, shawn.lin@rock-chips.com, axboe@fb.com,
	geert@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Potentially invalid memory accesses in file drivers/mmc/core/block.c
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 19:37:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003501d30289$89f86990$9de93cb0$@Domain> (raw)

Hi there,

My name is Shaobo He and I am a graduate student at University of Utah. 
I am using a static analysis tool to search for null pointer 
dereferences and came across a couple of potentially invalid memory 
accesses in the file drivers/mmc/core/block.c: in function 
`force_ro_store`, function `mmc_blk_get` can return a NULL pointer. 
However, there are a couple of conditions that can make the error path 
infeasible. I was wondering if you could confirm this. Especially if the 
condition `dev_to_disk(dev)->private_data && 
dev_to_disk(dev)->private_data->usage != 0` serves as a reasonable 
precondition of function `force_ro_store`.

Please let me know if it makes sense. I am looking forward to your 
reply.

Best,
Shaobo

             reply	other threads:[~2017-07-22  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-22  1:37 Shaobo [this message]
2017-08-03  7:46 ` Potentially invalid memory accesses in file drivers/mmc/core/block.c Linus Walleij
2017-08-03 18:54   ` Shaobo
2017-08-07 12:53     ` Linus Walleij

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