Re: [PATCH] livepatch: robustify klp_register_patch() API error checking

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Apr 07 2016 - 14:04:08 EST


On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 06:06:25PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
>
> Commit 425595a7fc20 ("livepatch: reuse module loader code to write
> relocations") adds a possibility of dereferncing pointers supplied by the
> consumer of the livepatch API before sanity (NULL) checking them (patch
> and patch->mod).
>
> Spotted by smatch tool.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>


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Josh