From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Cc: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>,
Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@broadcom.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: lpfc: prevent potential null pointer dereference
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 22:45:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1zidsl92c.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170523150928.GA24570@embeddedgus> (Gustavo A. R. Silva's message of "Tue, 23 May 2017 10:09:28 -0500")
Gustavo A.,
> Null check at line 966: if (ndlp) {, implies that ndlp might be NULL.
> Functions lpfc_nlp_set_state() and lpfc_issue_els_prli() dereference
> pointer ndlp. Include these function calls inside the IF block that
> tests pointer ndlp.
Applied to 4.12/scsi-fixes. Thank you!
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-01 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-23 15:09 [PATCH] scsi: lpfc: prevent potential null pointer dereference Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-05-29 23:06 ` James Smart
2017-06-01 2:45 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
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