Re: [PATCH][bpf-next] bpf: fix null pointer dereference on pointer offload
From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Fri Nov 16 2018 - 23:50:06 EST
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 09:29:26AM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Pointer offload is being null checked however the following statement
> dereferences the potentially null pointer offload when assigning
> offload->dev_state. Fix this by only assigning it if offload is not
> null.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1475437 ("Dereference after null check")
>
> Fixes: 00db12c3d141 ("bpf: call verifier_prep from its callback in struct bpf_offload_dev")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied, Thanks