From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] nexthop: fix uninitialized variable in nla_put_nh_group_stats()
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:11:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e3c6bcb-a0af-4800-92e2-1cab10545572@moroto.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zff1Liloe7DwW7Fh@nanopsycho>
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 09:02:54AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 10:46:03AM CET, dan.carpenter@linaro.org wrote:
> >The nh_grp_hw_stats_update() function doesn't always set "hw_stats_used"
> >so it could be used without being initialized. Set it to false.
> >
> >Fixes: 5072ae00aea4 ("net: nexthop: Expose nexthop group HW stats to user space")
> >Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
> >---
> > net/ipv4/nexthop.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
> >index 74928a9d1aa4..c25bfdf4e25f 100644
> >--- a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
> >+++ b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
> >@@ -824,8 +824,8 @@ static int nla_put_nh_group_stats(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nexthop *nh,
> > u32 op_flags)
> > {
> > struct nh_group *nhg = rtnl_dereference(nh->nh_grp);
> >+ bool hw_stats_used = false;
> > struct nlattr *nest;
> >- bool hw_stats_used;
>
>
> Probably better to set this in one place and have:
> if (nexthop_notifiers_is_empty(net)) {
> *hw_stats_used = false;
> return 0;
> }
> in nh_grp_hw_stats_update().
>
Sure. Will do.
regards,
dan carpenter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-18 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-16 9:46 [PATCH net] nexthop: fix uninitialized variable in nla_put_nh_group_stats() Dan Carpenter
2024-03-16 16:29 ` David Ahern
2024-03-17 7:56 ` Ido Schimmel
2024-03-18 8:02 ` Jiri Pirko
2024-03-18 8:11 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
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