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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
	yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] befs: fix return value check in befs_iget()
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:29:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131030182902.GK20521@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jKRTv_xW1kbPBR+GYNDvPTb5rirFXNZjGH17Rsssh8q4A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:52:38AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
> >
> > In case of error, the function iget_locked() returns NULL pointer
> > not ERR_PTR(). The IS_ERR() test in the return value check should
> > be replaced with NULL test.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
> 
> Good catch, thanks!
> 
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> 
> As an aside, Dan, how hard would this kind of mismatch be to detect
> with smatch?

It already does, but you need the cross function database set up.

regards,
dan carpenter


      reply	other threads:[~2013-10-30 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-29  2:00 [PATCH] befs: fix return value check in befs_iget() Wei Yongjun
2013-10-29 15:09 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2013-10-30 17:52 ` Kees Cook
2013-10-30 18:29   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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