From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Loic <hackurx@opensec.fr>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, colin.king@canonical.com,
alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, aaron.f.brown@intel.com,
jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: avoid null pointer dereference on invalid stat type
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 09:37:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181117143756.GP1706@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181109141706.044436edb88f95b9aacc7cb3@opensec.fr>
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:17:06PM +0100, Loic wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Please picked up this patch for linux 4.4 and 4.9.
>Compiled/tested without problem.
>
>Thank.
>
>[ Upstream commit 5983587c8c5ef00d6886477544ad67d495bc5479 ]
>
>From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 18:13:48 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH] e1000: avoid null pointer dereference on invalid stat type
>
>Currently if the stat type is invalid then data[i] is being set
>either by dereferencing a null pointer p, or it is reading from
>an incorrect previous location if we had a valid stat type
>previously. Fix this by skipping over the read of p on an invalid
>stat type.
>
>Detected by CoverityScan, CID#113385 ("Explicit null dereferenced")
>
>Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
>Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
>Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Queued for 4.9 and 4.4, thank you.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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2018-11-09 13:17 [PATCH] e1000: avoid null pointer dereference on invalid stat type Loic
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