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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sploving1@gmail.com
Cc: sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: fix null pointer dereference on nlk->groups
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:27:07 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160110.232707.1954364745984617361.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452355001-30295-1-git-send-email-sploving1@gmail.com>

From: Baozeng Ding <sploving1@gmail.com>
Date: Sat,  9 Jan 2016 23:56:41 +0800

> If groups is not 0 and nlk->groups is NULL, it will not return
> immediately and cause a null pointer dereference later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baozeng Ding <sploving1@gmail.com>
> ---
> This version uses the preferred networking coding style. Thanks
> for Sergei's feedback. Also the patch keeps the original author's
> coding style as much as possible.

Is this an actual legal state?  If not, add a WARN_ON() check.

Otherwise, provide a proper OOPS log and explain how the state
can be achieved.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-11  4:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-08  5:46 [PATCH] netlink: fix null pointer dereference on nlk->groups Baozeng Ding
2016-01-08 19:43 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-01-09 15:56 ` [PATCH v2] " Baozeng Ding
2016-01-11  4:27   ` David Miller [this message]
2016-01-12 11:10 ` [PATCH v3] " Baozeng Ding
2016-01-12 11:15   ` Denis Kirjanov
2016-01-12 12:00     ` Herbert Xu
2016-01-12 19:40   ` David Miller

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