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* [PATCH] net: scm: moving dereference after NULL check
@ 2012-09-23 17:03 Maxin B. John
  2012-09-24 19:51 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Maxin B. John @ 2012-09-23 17:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S. Miller; +Cc: Catherine Zhang, netdev, linux-kernel

scm_destroy_cred() dereferences 'scm' before null check

Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/include/net/scm.h b/include/net/scm.h
index 7dc0854..ed25aa1 100644
--- a/include/net/scm.h
+++ b/include/net/scm.h
@@ -64,9 +64,11 @@ static __inline__ void scm_destroy_cred(struct scm_cookie *scm)
 
 static __inline__ void scm_destroy(struct scm_cookie *scm)
 {
-	scm_destroy_cred(scm);
-	if (scm && scm->fp)
-		__scm_destroy(scm);
+	if (scm) {
+		scm_destroy_cred(scm);
+		if (scm->fp)
+			__scm_destroy(scm);
+	}
 }
 
 static __inline__ int scm_send(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,

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* Re: [PATCH] net: scm: moving dereference after NULL check
  2012-09-23 17:03 [PATCH] net: scm: moving dereference after NULL check Maxin B. John
@ 2012-09-24 19:51 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2012-09-24 19:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: maxin.john; +Cc: cxzhang, netdev, linux-kernel

From: "Maxin B. John" <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:03:30 -0400

> scm_destroy_cred() dereferences 'scm' before null check
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com>

Every caller of scm_destroy() passes a non-NULL scm, so the
NULL test can be removed entirely.

I'll do this in net-next, thanks.

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