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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Rand Deeb <rand.sec96@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	deeb.rand@confident.ru, lvc-project@linuxtesting.org,
	voskresenski.stanislav@confident.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dl2k: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in receive_packet()
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:02:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240214170203.5bf20e2d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240213200900.41722-1-rand.sec96@gmail.com>

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:09:00 +0300 Rand Deeb wrote:
> +			if (skb == NULL) {

if (!skb) is more common

> +				np->rx_ring[entry].fraginfo = 0;
> +				printk (KERN_INFO
> +				       "%s: receive_packet: "
> +				       "Unable to re-allocate Rx skbuff.#%d\n",
> +				       dev->name, entry);

no prints on allocation failure, please, there logs will include OOM
splats already. A counter as suggested by Jake would be better.
-- 
pw-bot: cr

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-02-15  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-13 20:09 [PATCH] dl2k: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in receive_packet() Rand Deeb
2024-02-14 21:56 ` Jacob Keller
2024-02-15  1:02 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-02-15 23:32   ` Rand Deeb
2024-02-16  0:18     ` Jakub Kicinski

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