Re: ctcm: rename READ/WRITE defines to avoid redefinitions

From: Alexandra Winter
Date: Mon Apr 25 2022 - 04:38:33 EST




On 24.04.22 20:58, Colin King (gmail) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> static analysis with cppcheck detected a potential null pointer deference with the following commit:
>
> commit 3c09e2647b5e1f1f9fd383971468823c2505e1b0
> Author: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Aug 12 01:58:28 2010 +0000
>
>     ctcm: rename READ/WRITE defines to avoid redefinitions
>
>
> The analysis is as follows:
>
> drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c:43:8: note: Assuming that condition 'priv' is not redundant
>  if (!(priv && priv->channel[CTCM_READ] && ndev)) {
>        ^
> drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c:42:9: note: Null pointer dereference
>  ndev = priv->channel[CTCM_READ]->netdev;
>
> The code in question is as follows:
>
>         ndev = priv->channel[CTCM_READ]->netdev;
>
>         ^^ priv may be null, as per check below but it is being dereferenced when assigning ndev
>
>         if (!(priv && priv->channel[CTCM_READ] && ndev)) {
>                 CTCM_DBF_TEXT(SETUP, CTC_DBF_ERROR, "bfnondev");
>                 return -ENODEV;
>         }
>
> Colin

Thank you very much for reporting this, we will provide a patch.

Do you have any special requests for the Reported-by flag? Or is
Reported-by: Colin King (gmail) <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
fine with you?

Kind regards
Alexandra