From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (lindbergh.monkeyblade.net [23.128.96.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA07B2AB20 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc (Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc [IPv6:2a0a:51c0:0:237:300::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A676C0; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:38:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fw by Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qBeMo-0002WT-Fi; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:38:06 +0200 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:38:06 +0200 From: Florian Westphal To: Igor Artemiev Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso , Jozsef Kadlecsik , Florian Westphal , "David S . Miller" , Paolo Abeni , Jakub Kicinski , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lvc-project@linuxtesting.org Subject: Re: [lvc-project] [PATCH] netfilter: ebtables: remove unnecessary NULL check Message-ID: <20230620163806.GB3799@breakpoint.cc> References: <20230620152549.2109063-1-Igor.A.Artemiev@mcst.ru> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20230620152549.2109063-1-Igor.A.Artemiev@mcst.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED, SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on lindbergh.monkeyblade.net Igor Artemiev wrote: > In ebt_do_table() 'private->chainstack' cannot be NULL > and the 'cs' pointer is dereferenced below, so it does not make > sense to compare 'private->chainstack' with NULL. ? Why do you think that? > + cs = private->chainstack[smp_processor_id()]; Looks like NULL deref to me. Did you test this?