Re: [PATCH] scsi: qla4xxx: Prevent a potential error pointer dereference

[Chris Leech]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 08:49:08AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The qla4xxx_get_ep_fwdb() function is supposed to return NULL on error,
> but qla4xxx_ep_connect() returns error pointers.  Propagating the error
> pointers will lead to an Oops in the caller, so change the error
> pointers to NULL.

Looks right to me.

Reviewed-by: Chris Leech <cleech@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Fixes: 13483730a13b ("[SCSI] qla4xxx: fix flash/ddb support")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> index a39f1da4ce47..a761c0aa5127 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c
> @@ -6606,6 +6606,8 @@ static struct iscsi_endpoint *qla4xxx_get_ep_fwdb(struct scsi_qla_host *ha,
>  
>  	ep = qla4xxx_ep_connect(ha->host, (struct sockaddr *)dst_addr, 0);
>  	vfree(dst_addr);
> +	if (IS_ERR(ep))
> +		return NULL;
>  	return ep;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.47.2
>