Re: [PATCH] infiniband: cxgb4: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 07:50:23PM +0530, Potnuri Bharat Teja wrote:
> On Thursday, March 03/28/19, 2019 at 18:10:37 +0530, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 07:08:54PM +0530, Potnuri Bharat Teja wrote:
> > > On Saturday, March 03/23/19, 2019 at 08:07:46 +0530, Kangjie Lu wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > On Mar 8, 2019, at 11:19 PM, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > get_skb may fail and return NULL. The fix returns "ENOMEM"
> > > > > when it fails to avoid NULL dereference.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
> > > > > drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c | 3 +++
> > > > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > > > > 
> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> > > > > index 8221813219e5..502a54d57e2c 100644
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
> > > > > @@ -1919,6 +1919,9 @@ static int send_fw_act_open_req(struct c4iw_ep *ep, unsigned int atid)
> > > > > 	int win;
> > > > > 
> > > > > 	skb = get_skb(NULL, sizeof(*req), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > > +	if (!skb)
> > > > > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > > > > +
> > > > 
> > > > Can someone review this patch? Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Sorry for the late response.
> > > I recommend an error print before the return.
> > > if (!skb) {
> > > 	pr_err("%s - failed to alloc skb\n", __func__);
> > > 	return -ENOMEM;
> > > }
> > 
> > no error prints on memory allocation failure, the kernel already
> > prints enough on this
> Ok.
> 
> Acked-by: Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com>

It needs to be resent with Bart's comment addressed, and all the tags collected.

Jason