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From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@gmail.com>,
	borisp@nvidia.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: tls: Fix possible NULL-pointer dereference in tls_decrypt_device() and tls_decrypt_sw()
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 23:20:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZTmGl1BFr0NQtJRn@hog> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231025071408.3b33f733@kernel.org>

2023-10-25, 07:14:08 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:27:05 +0200 Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> > > My bad. I only checked &msg->msg_iter's address in tls_decrypt_sw and found
> > > it was wrong. Do I need to make a new patch to fix the harmless bogus
> > > pointer?  
> > 
> > I don't think that's necessary, but maybe it would avoid people trying
> > to "fix" this code in the future. Jakub, WDYT?
> 
> No strong feelings, but personally I find checks for conditions which
> cannot happen decrease the readability. Maybe a comment is better?

There's already a comment above tls_decrypt_sg that (pretty much) says
out_iov is only used in zero-copy mode.

 *          [...]            The input parameter 'darg->zc' indicates if
 * zero-copy mode needs to be tried or not. With zero-copy mode, either
 * out_iov or out_sg must be non-NULL.

Do we need another just above the call to tls_decrypt_sg?

-- 
Sabrina


  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-25 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-23  8:06 [PATCH] net: tls: Fix possible NULL-pointer dereference in tls_decrypt_device() and tls_decrypt_sw() Hangyu Hua
2023-10-23 14:03 ` Sabrina Dubroca
2023-10-24  2:17   ` Hangyu Hua
2023-10-25 10:27     ` Sabrina Dubroca
2023-10-25 14:14       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-25 21:20         ` Sabrina Dubroca [this message]
2023-10-25 21:30           ` Jakub Kicinski

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