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From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] [XFRM]: Don't dereference error pointer dst1
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:37:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA3BFA3.1060204@gmail.com> (raw)

Don't dereference dst1 when it's an error pointer.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

I just noticed this by code analysis. It wasn't tested in any way.

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
index cbab6e1..b186c3d 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
@@ -1414,13 +1414,14 @@ static struct dst_entry *xfrm_bundle_create(struct xfrm_policy *policy,
 
 	for (; i < nx; i++) {
 		struct xfrm_dst *xdst = xfrm_alloc_dst(net, family);
-		struct dst_entry *dst1 = &xdst->u.dst;
+		struct dst_entry *dst1;
 
 		err = PTR_ERR(xdst);
 		if (IS_ERR(xdst)) {
 			dst_release(dst);
 			goto put_states;
 		}
+		dst1 = &xdst->u.dst;
 
 		if (!dst_prev)
 			dst0 = dst1;

             reply	other threads:[~2010-09-29 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-29 22:37 Roel Kluin [this message]
2010-09-29 20:45 ` [PATCH] [XFRM]: Don't dereference error pointer dst1 Eric Dumazet
2010-09-29 20:49   ` David Miller

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