RE: [PATCH] scsi: qla4xxx: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Manish Rangankar
Date: Mon Mar 25 2019 - 02:24:01 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-scsi-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Kangjie Lu
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:01 PM
> To: kjlu@xxxxxxx
> Cc: pakki001@xxxxxxx; QLogic-Storage-Upstream@xxxxxxxxxx; James E.J.
> Bottomley <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Martin K. Petersen
> <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: qla4xxx: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
>
> In case iscsi_lookup_endpoint fails, the fix returns -EINVAL to avoid NULL
> pointer dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> index a77bfb224248..80289c885c07 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> @@ -3203,6 +3203,8 @@ static int qla4xxx_conn_bind(struct
> iscsi_cls_session *cls_session,
> if (iscsi_conn_bind(cls_session, cls_conn, is_leading))
> return -EINVAL;
> ep = iscsi_lookup_endpoint(transport_fd);
> + if (!ep)
> + return -EINVAL;
> conn = cls_conn->dd_data;
> qla_conn = conn->dd_data;
> qla_conn->qla_ep = ep->dd_data;
> --
> 2.17.1

Thanks
Acked-by: Manish Rangankar <mrangankar@xxxxxxxxxxx>