[PATCH 2/5] 9p: virtio: fix unlikely null pointer deref in handle_rerror

From: Dominique Martinet
Date: Thu Apr 27 2023 - 07:24:12 EST


handle_rerror can dereference the pages pointer, but it is not
necessarily set for small payloads.
In practice these should be filtered out by the size check, but
might as well double-check explicitly.

This fixes the following scan-build warnings:
net/9p/trans_virtio.c:401:24: warning: Dereference of null pointer [core.NullDereference]
memcpy_from_page(to, *pages++, offs, n);
^~~~~~~~
net/9p/trans_virtio.c:406:23: warning: Dereference of null pointer (loaded from variable 'pages') [core.NullDereference]
memcpy_from_page(to, *pages, offs, size);
^~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/9p/trans_virtio.c b/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
index 3c27ffb781e3..2c9495ccda6b 100644
--- a/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
+++ b/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static void handle_rerror(struct p9_req_t *req, int in_hdr_len,
void *to = req->rc.sdata + in_hdr_len;

// Fits entirely into the static data? Nothing to do.
- if (req->rc.size < in_hdr_len)
+ if (req->rc.size < in_hdr_len || !pages)
return;

// Really long error message? Tough, truncate the reply. Might get

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