Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fib: avoid NULL dereference

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Jul 06 2018 - 10:47:14 EST




On 07/06/2018 07:28 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> In tnode_free() we iterate over a callback_head list with a while loop.
> At the start of the loop body we generate the next head pointer, and at
> the end of the loop body we generate the tn pointer for the next
> iteration of the loop by using container_of() on the head pointer to
> find the tnode, and deriving the kv pointer from this.
>
> In the final iteration of the loop, this means that we derive a pointer
> from NULL, which is undefined behaviour, which UBSAN detects:

There is no dereference, your patch title is misleading.

UBSAN might be fooled, not the C compiler.