Re: [PATCH] fuse: fix potential accessing NULL pointer problem in fuse_send_init()

From: Zhiqiang Liu
Date: Thu Oct 29 2020 - 23:02:37 EST




On 2020/10/29 23:25, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 4:52 PM Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> In fuse_send_init func, ia is allocated by calling kzalloc func, and
>> we donot check whether ia is NULL before using it. Thus, if allocating
>> ia fails, accessing NULL pointer problem will occur.
>
> Note the __GFP_NOFAIL flag for kzalloc(), which ensures that it will not fail.

Thanks for your reply.
Please ignore this patch.