From: Purva Yeshi <purvayeshi550@gmail.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Purva Yeshi <purvayeshi550@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: ipv4: Fix uninitialized pointer warning in fnhe_remove_oldest
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:11:26 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250417094126.34352-1-purvayeshi550@gmail.com> (raw)
Fix Smatch-detected issue:
net/ipv4/route.c:605 fnhe_remove_oldest() error:
uninitialized symbol 'oldest_p'.
Initialize oldest_p to NULL to avoid uninitialized pointer warning in
fnhe_remove_oldest.
Check that oldest_p is not NULL after the loop to ensure no dereferencing
of uninitialized pointers.
Signed-off-by: Purva Yeshi <purvayeshi550@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv4/route.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index 753704f75b2c..2e5159127cb9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ static void fnhe_flush_routes(struct fib_nh_exception *fnhe)
static void fnhe_remove_oldest(struct fnhe_hash_bucket *hash)
{
- struct fib_nh_exception __rcu **fnhe_p, **oldest_p;
+ struct fib_nh_exception __rcu **fnhe_p, **oldest_p = NULL;
struct fib_nh_exception *fnhe, *oldest = NULL;
for (fnhe_p = &hash->chain; ; fnhe_p = &fnhe->fnhe_next) {
@@ -601,9 +601,12 @@ static void fnhe_remove_oldest(struct fnhe_hash_bucket *hash)
oldest_p = fnhe_p;
}
}
- fnhe_flush_routes(oldest);
- *oldest_p = oldest->fnhe_next;
- kfree_rcu(oldest, rcu);
+
+ if (oldest_p) { /* Ensure to have valid oldest_p element */
+ fnhe_flush_routes(oldest);
+ *oldest_p = oldest->fnhe_next;
+ kfree_rcu(oldest, rcu);
+ }
}
static u32 fnhe_hashfun(__be32 daddr)
--
2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-04-17 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-17 9:41 Purva Yeshi [this message]
2025-04-17 22:00 ` [PATCH] net: ipv4: Fix uninitialized pointer warning in fnhe_remove_oldest Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-04-18 5:03 ` David Ahern
2025-04-18 9:46 ` Purva Yeshi
2025-04-18 9:31 ` Purva Yeshi
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