Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2017-10-17

Re: [PATCH] can: check for null sk before deferencing it via the call to sock_net

From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Date: 2017-10-16 17:35:43
Also in: kernel-janitors, linux-can, lkml

On 10/16/2017 06:37 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Oliver Hartkopp [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted

On 09/08/2017 05:02 PM, Colin King wrote:
quoted
From: Colin Ian King <redacted>

The assignment of net via call sock_net will dereference sk. This
is performed before a sanity null check on sk, so there could be
a potential null dereference on the sock_net call if sk is null.
Fix this by assigning net after the sk null check. Also replace
the sk == NULL with the more usual !sk idiom.

Detected by CoverityScan CID#1431862 ("Dereference before null check")

Fixes: 384317ef4187 ("can: network namespace support for CAN_BCM
protocol")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>

Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
I don't see this one queued up in the net or net-next trees.  Did it
fall through the cracks or did it get queued up elsewhere?  Seems like
it's a good candidate to get into 4.14?
It definitely is!

Marc is our responsible guy for CAN related upstreams - but he seems to 
be busy as I already poked him here:

https://marc.info/?l=linux-can&m=150771819505097&w=2

If he doesn't send a pull request by beginning of next week, I would ask 
Dave to grab these patches - to get them into 4.14.

Best regards,
Oliver
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