Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging/lustre/lnet: fix potential null pointer dereference

[One Thousand Gnomes]

> Reviewed-by: John L. Hammond <john.hammond@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Isaac Huang <he.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
> index 21d36ee..516f623 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c
> @@ -829,14 +829,14 @@ ksocknal_select_ips(ksock_peer_t *peer, __u32 *peerips, int n_peerips)
>  				best_npeers = iface->ksni_npeers;
>  			}
>  
> +			LASSERT(best_iface != NULL);
> +

And this solves the problem how ???

These dont' appear that helpful. If we dereference a NULL point we'll
already get a suitably spectacular oops and call trace dump.

Alan
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