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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com
Cc: dan.carpenter@oracle.com, pablo@netfilter.org, kaber@trash.net,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org,
	coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] netfilter: potential NULL dereference in get_inner_hdr()
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 03:38:53 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120514.033853.1089019132135043947.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201205140936.56960.hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>

From: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 09:36:55 +0200

> On Saturday 12 May 2012 13:00:03 Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> There is a typo in the error checking and "&&" was used instead of "||".
>> If skb_header_pointer() returns NULL then it leads to a NULL
>> dereference.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Ack-by: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>
>  
>> ---
>> Btw, this is new code and Sparse complains about endian bugs.
> 
> Can you give me some hints here, arch , compiler version etc.
> I guess it was input to hmark_addr_mask() that complains ?

He said what he's using, "sparse", the semantic parser, which
is largely arch agnostic.

I guarantee you will see the warnings if you run it on your
system on this code.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-14  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-12 11:00 [patch] netfilter: potential NULL dereference in get_inner_hdr() Dan Carpenter
2012-05-14  7:36 ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-05-14  7:38   ` David Miller [this message]
2012-05-14  7:53     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-14  8:00       ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-05-14  8:22         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-05-14  8:39   ` Dan Carpenter
2012-05-14  8:24 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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