[lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging/lustre/ptlrpc: Removes potential null dereference

Lidza Louina lidza.louina at oracle.com
Thu May 12 15:33:12 PDT 2016


The lustre_msg_buf method could return NULL. Subsequent code didn't
check if it's null before using it. This patch adds two checks.
    
Signed-off-by: Lidza Louina <Lidza.Louina at oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec.c
index 187fd1d..e6fedc3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec.c
@@ -2195,6 +2195,8 @@ int sptlrpc_pack_user_desc(struct lustre_msg *msg, int offset)
 	struct ptlrpc_user_desc *pud;
 
 	pud = lustre_msg_buf(msg, offset, 0);
+	if (!pud)
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	pud->pud_uid = from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid());
 	pud->pud_gid = from_kgid(&init_user_ns, current_gid());
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c
index 37c9f4c..7736aa9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c
@@ -542,6 +542,7 @@ int plain_alloc_reqbuf(struct ptlrpc_sec *sec,
 {
 	__u32 buflens[PLAIN_PACK_SEGMENTS] = { 0, };
 	int alloc_len;
+	int desc;
 
 	buflens[PLAIN_PACK_HDR_OFF] = sizeof(struct plain_header);
 	buflens[PLAIN_PACK_MSG_OFF] = msgsize;
@@ -575,7 +576,10 @@ int plain_alloc_reqbuf(struct ptlrpc_sec *sec,
 	req->rq_reqmsg = lustre_msg_buf(req->rq_reqbuf, PLAIN_PACK_MSG_OFF, 0);
 
 	if (req->rq_pack_udesc)
-		sptlrpc_pack_user_desc(req->rq_reqbuf, PLAIN_PACK_USER_OFF);
+		desc = sptlrpc_pack_user_desc(req->rq_reqbuf, PLAIN_PACK_USER_OFF);
+		if (!desc){
+			return desc;
+		}
 
 	return 0;
 }


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