Re: [PATCH net v3] liquidio: Adjust a NULL pointer handling path in lio_vf_rep_copy_packet

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
Date: Fri Jun 07 2024 - 09:35:21 EST


Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 13:11:35 +0300 you wrote:
> In lio_vf_rep_copy_packet() pg_info->page is compared to a NULL value,
> but then it is unconditionally passed to skb_add_rx_frag() which looks
> strange and could lead to null pointer dereference.
>
> lio_vf_rep_copy_packet() call trace looks like:
> octeon_droq_process_packets
> octeon_droq_fast_process_packets
> octeon_droq_dispatch_pkt
> octeon_create_recv_info
> ...search in the dispatch_list...
> ->disp_fn(rdisp->rinfo, ...)
> lio_vf_rep_pkt_recv(struct octeon_recv_info *recv_info, ...)
> In this path there is no code which sets pg_info->page to NULL.
> So this check looks unneeded and doesn't solve potential problem.
> But I guess the author had reason to add a check and I have no such card
> and can't do real test.
> In addition, the code in the function liquidio_push_packet() in
> liquidio/lio_core.c does exactly the same.
>
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
- [net,v3] liquidio: Adjust a NULL pointer handling path in lio_vf_rep_copy_packet
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/c44711b78608

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