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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, rds-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: debug: fix null check on static array
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 06:32:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171206113211.GA8331@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171206014704.3796-1-bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp>

On (12/06/17 10:47), Prashant Bhole wrote:
> 
> t_name cannot be NULL since it is an array field of a struct.
> Replacing null check on static array with string length check using
> strnlen()

t_name is always initialized for all rds transports today,  and would
be all zeros unless someone stomped over that memory (in which case
there could be more serious issues than a busted debug string) but
it's good  to be safe and check I suppose.

Acked-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>

--Sowmini

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-06 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-06  1:47 [PATCH net-next] rds: debug: fix null check on static array Prashant Bhole
2017-12-06 11:32 ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2017-12-06 16:36   ` Santosh Shilimkar
     [not found] ` <20171206014704.3796-1-bhole_prashant_q7-Zyj7fXuS5i5L9jVzuh4AOg@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-06 20:03   ` David Miller

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