Re: Potential NULL pointer deference in spi

[Eric Dumazet]

On 10/10/19 10:31 PM, Yizhuo Zhai wrote:
> Hi Eric:
> 
> My apologies for bothering, we got those report via static analysis
> and haven't got a good method to verify the path to trigger them.
> Therefore I sent those email to you maintainers first since you
> know much better about the details. Sorry again for your time and
> I take your suggestions.

My suggestion is that you need to make deep investigations on your own,
before sending mails to lkml@, reaching thousands of people on the planet.

Static analysis tools having too many false positive are not worth
the time spent by humans.

I knew nothing about drivers/spi/spi.c, but after few minutes reading the code,
it was clear your report was wrong.

Do not ask us to do what you should do yourself.

Thanks.

> 
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 10:48 PM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 10/9/19 10:37 PM, Yizhuo Zhai wrote:
>>> Hi All:
>>>
>>> drivers/spi/spi.c:
>>>
>>> The function to_spi_device() could return NULL, but some callers
>>> in this file does not check the return value while directly dereference
>>> it, which seems potentially unsafe.
>>>
>>> Such callers include spidev_release(),  spi_dev_check(),
>>> driver_override_store(), etc.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Many of your reports are completely bogus.
>>
>> I suggest you spend more time before sending such emails to very large audience
>> and risk being ignored at some point.
>>
>> Thanks.
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