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From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel•org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro•org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google•com>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel•org>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat•com>,
	"Samuel Ortiz" <sameo@linux•intel.com>,
	"Frederic Danis" <frederic.danis@linux•intel.com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	黄思聪 <huangsicong@iie•ac.cn>,
	stable@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] nfc: nci: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in send_acknowledge()
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:28:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231016112819.GL1501712@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231013184129.18738-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 08:41:29PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Handle memory allocation failure from nci_skb_alloc() (calling
> alloc_skb()) to avoid possible NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> Reported-by: 黄思聪 <huangsicong@iie•ac.cn>
> Fixes: 391d8a2da787 ("NFC: Add NCI over SPI receive")
> Cc: <stable@vger•kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro•org>

Thanks,

I agree that nci_skb_alloc() may turn NULL and that this
is an appropriate way to handle that.

As an aside, I observe that the return value of send_acknowledge()
is not checked. But I don't think that affects the correctness of this
change.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel•org>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-16 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-13 18:41 [PATCH net-next] nfc: nci: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in send_acknowledge() Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-10-16 11:28 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2023-10-17  0:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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