Re: livepatch: robustify klp_register_patch() API error checking

From: Jessica Yu
Date: Thu Apr 07 2016 - 14:20:39 EST


+++ Jiri Kosina [07/04/16 18:06 +0200]:
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>

Commit 425595a7fc20 ("livepatch: reuse module loader code to write
relocations") adds a possibility of dereferncing pointers supplied by the
consumer of the livepatch API before sanity (NULL) checking them (patch
and patch->mod).

Spotted by smatch tool.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you Jiri!