From: Thaison Phan <thaisonphan@google.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
"David S . Miller " <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
"Fengyuan Gong" <gfengyuan@google.com>,
"Stan Iliev" <stani@google.com>,
"Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen" <ast@fiberby.net>,
"Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>,
"Thaison Phan" <thaisonphan@google.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/2] tools: ynl: check for null ptr on dump free
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 20:16:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260803201652.2752685-2-thaisonphan@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260803201652.2752685-1-thaisonphan@google.com>
Static analysis detected code paths where freeing a dump list after early
errors when creating the corresponding dump list like in ynl_exec_dump()
can result in a null pointer dereference since the first node in the
ynl_dump_state would still be zero initialized. To prevent this potential
problem updated the ynl c generation script to check for a NULL pointer
before continuing to free the nodes in a dump list.
Signed-off-by: Thaison Phan <thaisonphan@google.com>
---
tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py
index cdc3646f2642..2fd68c738075 100755
--- a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py
+++ b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py
@@ -2747,7 +2747,7 @@ def print_dump_type_free(ri):
ri.cw.block_start()
ri.cw.p(f"{sub_type} *next = rsp;")
ri.cw.nl()
- ri.cw.block_start(line='while ((void *)next != YNL_LIST_END)')
+ ri.cw.block_start(line='while (next && (void *)next != YNL_LIST_END)')
_free_type_members_iter(ri, ri.struct['reply'])
ri.cw.p('rsp = next;')
ri.cw.p('next = rsp->next;')
--
2.55.0.571.g244d577d93-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-03 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-03 20:16 [PATCH net-next 0/2] tools: ynl: update NULL pointer handling in generated code Thaison Phan
2026-08-03 20:16 ` Thaison Phan [this message]
2026-08-04 21:25 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] tools: ynl: check for null ptr on dump free Jakub Kicinski
2026-08-03 20:16 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] tools: ynl: check alloc fails in generated code Thaison Phan
2026-08-04 21:33 ` Jakub Kicinski
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