[PATCH net-next] net: ipv4: Fix the warning for dereference

[PATCH net-next] net: ipv4: Fix the warning for dereference

[Yajun Deng]

Add a if statements to avoid the warning.

Dan Carpenter report:
The patch faf482ca196a: "net: ipv4: Move ip_options_fragment() out of
loop" from Aug 23, 2021, leads to the following Smatch complaint:

    net/ipv4/ip_output.c:833 ip_do_fragment()
    warn: variable dereferenced before check 'iter.frag' (see line 828)

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Fixes: faf482ca196a ("net: ipv4: Move ip_options_fragment() out of loop")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210830073802.GR7722@kadam/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@linux.dev>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 9a8f05d5476e..9bca57ef8b83 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -825,7 +825,9 @@ int ip_do_fragment(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 		/* Everything is OK. Generate! */
 		ip_fraglist_init(skb, iph, hlen, &iter);
-		ip_options_fragment(iter.frag);
+
+		if (iter.frag)
+			ip_options_fragment(iter.frag);
 
 		for (;;) {
 			/* Prepare header of the next frame,
-- 
2.32.0

Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv4: Fix the warning for dereference

[patchwork-bot+netdevbpf]

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (refs/heads/master):

On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:16:40 +0800 you wrote:
> Add a if statements to avoid the warning.
> 
> Dan Carpenter report:
> The patch faf482ca196a: "net: ipv4: Move ip_options_fragment() out of
> loop" from Aug 23, 2021, leads to the following Smatch complaint:
> 
>     net/ipv4/ip_output.c:833 ip_do_fragment()
>     warn: variable dereferenced before check 'iter.frag' (see line 828)
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] net: ipv4: Fix the warning for dereference
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/1b9fbe813016

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