From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Venkateswararao Jujjuri Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] 9p: move dereference after NULL check Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:31:16 -0700 Message-ID: <4E678E44.1020204@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20110826165559.GE3775@shale.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen , "David S. Miller" , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , "M. Mohan Kumar" , "open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org To: Dan Carpenter Return-path: Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:53243 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755665Ab1IGQJm (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:09:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110826165559.GE3775@shale.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/26/2011 09:55 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > We dereferenced "req->tc" and "req->rc" before checking for NULL. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Reviewed-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri > > diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c > index 3f8c046..b0bcace 100644 > --- a/net/9p/client.c > +++ b/net/9p/client.c > @@ -248,10 +248,8 @@ static struct p9_req_t *p9_tag_alloc(struct p9_client *c, u16 tag, int max_size) > init_waitqueue_head(req->wq); > req->tc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct p9_fcall) + alloc_msize, > GFP_NOFS); > - req->tc->capacity = alloc_msize; > req->rc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct p9_fcall) + alloc_msize, > GFP_NOFS); > - req->rc->capacity = alloc_msize; > if ((!req->tc) || (!req->rc)) { > printk(KERN_ERR "Couldn't grow tag array\n"); > kfree(req->tc); > @@ -261,6 +259,8 @@ static struct p9_req_t *p9_tag_alloc(struct p9_client *c, u16 tag, int max_size) > req->wq = NULL; > return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); > } > + req->tc->capacity = alloc_msize; > + req->rc->capacity = alloc_msize; > req->tc->sdata = (char *) req->tc + sizeof(struct p9_fcall); > req->rc->sdata = (char *) req->rc + sizeof(struct p9_fcall); > }