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SubjectRe: [PATCH][next] mptcp: fix a dereference of pointer before msk is null checked.
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On 11/11/2020 18:49, Mat Martineau wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2020, Colin King wrote:
>
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>
>> Currently the assignment of pointer net from the sock_net(sk) call
>> is potentially dereferencing a null pointer sk. sk points to the
>> same location as pointer msk and msk is being null checked after
>> the sock_net call.  Fix this by calling sock_net after the null
>> check on pointer msk.
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
>> Fixes: 00cfd77b9063 ("mptcp: retransmit ADD_ADDR when timeout")
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>> ---
>> net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 4 +++-
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>
> Hi Colin and Jakub -
>
> I noticed that the follow-up discussion on this patch didn't go to the
> netdev list, so patchwork did not get updated.
>
> This patch is superseded by the following, which already has a
> Reviewed-by tag from Matthieu:
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/078a2ef5bdc4e3b2c25ef852461692001f426495.1604976945.git.geliangtang@gmail.com/
>
>
OK, thanks for letting me know. Good to see it got fixed!

Colin
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Mat Martineau
> Intel

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