From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>,
Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] rxrpc, afs: Fix missing error pointer check after rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer()
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:31:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <368272.1772713861@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer() can also return error pointers in addition to
NULL, so just checking for NULL is not sufficient.
Fix this by:
(1) Changing rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer() to return -ENOMEM rather than NULL
on allocation failure.
(2) Making the callers in afs use IS_ERR() and PTR_ERR() to pass on the
error code returned.
Fixes: 72904d7b9bfb ("rxrpc, afs: Allow afs to pin rxrpc_peer objects")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
---
fs/afs/addr_list.c | 8 ++++----
net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c | 8 +++++---
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/afs/addr_list.c b/fs/afs/addr_list.c
index a936f9ea5610..63bf096b721a 100644
--- a/fs/afs/addr_list.c
+++ b/fs/afs/addr_list.c
@@ -298,8 +298,8 @@ int afs_merge_fs_addr4(struct afs_net *net, struct afs_addr_list *alist,
srx.transport.sin.sin_addr.s_addr = xdr;
peer = rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer(net->socket, &srx, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!peer)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (IS_ERR(peer))
+ return PTR_ERR(peer);
for (i = 0; i < alist->nr_ipv4; i++) {
if (peer == alist->addrs[i].peer) {
@@ -342,8 +342,8 @@ int afs_merge_fs_addr6(struct afs_net *net, struct afs_addr_list *alist,
memcpy(&srx.transport.sin6.sin6_addr, xdr, 16);
peer = rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer(net->socket, &srx, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!peer)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (IS_ERR(peer))
+ return PTR_ERR(peer);
for (i = alist->nr_ipv4; i < alist->nr_addrs; i++) {
if (peer == alist->addrs[i].peer) {
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
index 0c2c68c4b07e..0f90272ac254 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
@@ -267,12 +267,13 @@ static int rxrpc_listen(struct socket *sock, int backlog)
* Lookup or create a remote transport endpoint record for the specified
* address.
*
- * Return: The peer record found with a reference, %NULL if no record is found
- * or a negative error code if the address is invalid or unsupported.
+ * Return: The peer record found with a reference or a negative error code if
+ * the address is invalid or unsupported.
*/
struct rxrpc_peer *rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer(struct socket *sock,
struct sockaddr_rxrpc *srx, gfp_t gfp)
{
+ struct rxrpc_peer *peer;
struct rxrpc_sock *rx = rxrpc_sk(sock->sk);
int ret;
@@ -280,7 +281,8 @@ struct rxrpc_peer *rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer(struct socket *sock,
if (ret < 0)
return ERR_PTR(ret);
- return rxrpc_lookup_peer(rx->local, srx, gfp);
+ peer = rxrpc_lookup_peer(rx->local, srx, gfp);
+ return peer ?: ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer);
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-05 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-05 12:31 David Howells [this message]
2026-03-06 9:57 ` [PATCH net] rxrpc, afs: Fix missing error pointer check after rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer() David Howells
2026-03-07 2:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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