From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, target-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [0/8] target-iSCSI: Adjustments for several function implementations
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:50:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <866a1802-0cd8-48fd-e04f-7dc676ab58a6@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180223101715.xv5dscdaeszqxoyk@mwanda>
>> Can a passed null pointer really work in this function?
>>
>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.16-rc2/source/include/crypto/hash.h#L684
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/crypto/hash.h?id=0f9da844d87796ac31b04e81ee95e155e9043132#n751
>>
>> static inline struct crypto_tfm *crypto_shash_tfm(struct crypto_shash *tfm)
>> {
>> return &tfm->base;
>> }
>
> Yes. It's not a dereference,
Do any processors treat the zero address still special there?
> it's just doing pointer math to get the address.
Can eventually happen anything unexpected?
Can it be nicer to avoid such a software behaviour concern generally
just by adjusting a few jump labels (as I proposed it)?
Regards,
Markus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-23 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 21:40 [PATCH 0/8] target-iSCSI: Adjustments for several function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2017-12-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 1/8] target/iscsi: Less function calls in chap_server_compute_md5() after error detection SF Markus Elfring
2017-12-12 21:43 ` [PATCH 2/8] target/iscsi: Move resetting of seven variables in chap_server_compute_md5() SF Markus Elfring
2017-12-12 21:45 ` [PATCH 3/8] target/iscsi: Delete 36 error messages for a failed memory allocation SF Markus Elfring
2017-12-12 21:46 ` [PATCH 4/8] target/iscsi: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in iscsit_allocate_ooo_cmdsn() SF Markus Elfring
2017-12-12 21:47 ` [PATCH 5/8] target/iscsi: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in iscsi_copy_param_list() SF Markus Elfring
2017-12-12 21:49 ` [PATCH 6/8] target/iscsi: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in iscsi_create_default_params() SF Markus Elfring
2017-12-12 21:50 ` [PATCH 7/8] target/iscsi: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in iscsi_set_default_param() SF Markus Elfring
2017-12-12 21:52 ` [PATCH 8/8] target/iscsi: Improve 16 size determinations SF Markus Elfring
2018-02-21 16:45 ` [PATCH 0/8] target-iSCSI: Adjustments for several function implementations SF Markus Elfring
[not found] ` <20180222143624.7c7241a1@suse.de>
2018-02-23 8:19 ` [0/8] " SF Markus Elfring
[not found] ` <20180222135600.5vv7vzw7sa5metcb@mwanda>
2018-02-23 9:06 ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-02-23 10:17 ` Dan Carpenter
2018-02-23 11:50 ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
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