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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: minyard@acm.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ipmi: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ssif_probe
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:49:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc9d1a34-30df-ea99-a369-fe2f9c2138fb@embeddedor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6efd45da-8b35-b1c8-bd0e-148c578c99f5@acm.org>



On 8/31/18 2:15 PM, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 08/31/2018 10:00 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> There is a potential execution path in which function ssif_info_find()
>> returns NULL, hence there is a NULL pointer dereference when accessing
>> pointer *addr_info*
>>
>> Fix this by null checking *addr_info* before dereferencing it.
> 
> Thanks for catching this quickly, before it went out.  It's merged into my next tree.
> 

Glad to help. :)

Thanks
--
Gustavo

      reply	other threads:[~2018-08-31 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-31 15:00 Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-08-31 19:15 ` Corey Minyard
2018-08-31 20:49   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]

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