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From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix NULL pointer dereferences
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:48:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180726094849.GA18334@nautica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT4Y+ark+0EYSZaOX-qDKpOkyfLgSO9CkidZzx=xkUuhpr65A@mail.gmail.com>

Dmitry Vyukov wrote on Thu, Jul 26, 2018:
> > Let's refuse that at much higher level, like v9fs_mount() in
> > fs/9p/vfs_super.c
> >
> > I can't think of any valid reason for dev_name to be NULL, it's the
> > target IP or virtio handle.
> 
> But I think trans=fd allows NULL addr today, no?

Ah, right, I read the patch too fast and read unix_create as fd_create,
I never realized there was a unix_create variant...

fd legitimately doesn't need a name, you are correct.

I'm really curious if anyone ever uses the unix/fd variants for "real"
stuff though! (not meaning syzbot isn't real, but I have yet to see
anything take advantage of this, even if I could imagine some fun
applications by piping the wmii libixp server socket.. and just crashed
my laptop trying because of the (fixed) trans put bug.. I have yet to
see anyone actually doing this)


On the other hand, virtio, rdma and xen all have the same problem, so
Thomas, please fix them instead :)

-- 
Dominique Martinet

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-26  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-26  8:10 [PATCH] 9p: fix NULL pointer dereferences Tomas Bortoli
2018-07-26  8:17 ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-26  9:27   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-07-26  9:48     ` Dominique Martinet [this message]
2018-07-26  9:54       ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-07-26 10:25         ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-26 14:13       ` Tomas Bortoli
2018-07-26 14:21         ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-26 14:32           ` Tomas Bortoli
2018-07-26 22:15             ` Dominique Martinet
2018-08-08 15:51               ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-08-08 22:41                 ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-26 14:48       ` [V9fs-developer] " sqweek

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