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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: sched: gred: potential dereference of null pointer
On Thu,  9 Dec 2021 10:13:46 +0800 Jiasheng Jiang wrote:
> The return value of kzalloc() needs to be checked.
> To avoid use of null pointer in gred_change_vq() in case
> of the failure of alloc.
>
> Fixes: 869aa41044b0 ("sch_gred: prefer GFP_KERNEL allocations")
> Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn>

I don't see how. Please explain in more detail. gred_change_vq() gets
a pointer to a pointer and checks if its values is NULL.

> diff --git a/net/sched/sch_gred.c b/net/sched/sch_gred.c
> index f4132dc25ac0..c0d355281baf 100644
> --- a/net/sched/sch_gred.c
> +++ b/net/sched/sch_gred.c
> @@ -697,6 +697,8 @@ static int gred_change(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt,
> }
>
> prealloc = kzalloc(sizeof(*prealloc), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!prealloc)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> sch_tree_lock(sch);
>
> err = gred_change_vq(sch, ctl->DP, ctl, prio, stab, max_P, &prealloc,

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