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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: sched: Fix a possible null-pointer dereference in dequeue_func()
Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 09:32:00AM CEST, baijiaju1990@gmail.com wrote:
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>On 2019/7/29 14:56, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 04:21:57AM CEST, baijiaju1990@gmail.com wrote:
>> > In dequeue_func(), there is an if statement on line 74 to check whether
>> > skb is NULL:
>> > if (skb)
>> >
>> > When skb is NULL, it is used on line 77:
>> > prefetch(&skb->end);
>> >
>> > Thus, a possible null-pointer dereference may occur.
>> >
>> > To fix this bug, skb->end is used when skb is not NULL.
>> >
>> > This bug is found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by us.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
>> Fixes tag, please?
>
>Sorry, I do not know what "fixes tag" means...
>I just find a possible bug and fix it in this patch.

git log |grep Fixes:

If A fix goes to -net tree, it most probably fixes some bug introduced
by some commit in the past. So this tag is to put a reference.


>
>
>Best wishes,
>Jia-Ju Bai

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