From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: colin.king@canonical.com
Cc: subashab@codeaurora.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: qualcomm: rmnet: check for null ep to avoid null pointer dereference
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:11:45 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180326.121145.136604200411684413.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180323235157.8129-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
From: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 23:51:57 +0000
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> The call to rmnet_get_endpoint can potentially return NULL so check
> for this to avoid any subsequent null pointer dereferences on a NULL
> ep.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1465385 ("Dereference null return value")
>
> Fixes: 23790ef12082 ("net: qualcomm: rmnet: Allow to configure flags for existing devices")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Applied to net-next, thanks.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: colin.king@canonical.com
Cc: subashab@codeaurora.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: qualcomm: rmnet: check for null ep to avoid null pointer dereference
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:11:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180326.121145.136604200411684413.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180323235157.8129-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
From: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 23:51:57 +0000
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> The call to rmnet_get_endpoint can potentially return NULL so check
> for this to avoid any subsequent null pointer dereferences on a NULL
> ep.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1465385 ("Dereference null return value")
>
> Fixes: 23790ef12082 ("net: qualcomm: rmnet: Allow to configure flags for existing devices")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Applied to net-next, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-26 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-23 23:51 [PATCH] net: qualcomm: rmnet: check for null ep to avoid null pointer dereference Colin King
2018-03-26 16:11 ` David Miller [this message]
2018-03-26 16:11 ` David Miller
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