Re: [PATCH][next] net/mlx5e: Fix potential null pointer dereference

From: Saeed Mahameed
Date: Mon Sep 28 2020 - 19:22:37 EST


On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 11:49 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Calls to kzalloc() and kvzalloc() should be null-checked
> in order to avoid any potential failures. In this case,
> a potential null pointer dereference.
>
> Fix this by adding null checks for _parse_attr_ and _flow_
> right after allocation.
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1497154 ("Dereference before null check")
> Fixes: c620b772152b ("net/mlx5: Refactor tc flow attributes
> structure")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>

Applied to net-next-mlx5.
Thanks.