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Re: [PATCH] bpf: don't kfree an uninitialized im_node

From Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] bpf: don't kfree an uninitialized im_node
Date 2017-01-24 19:00 +0100
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> There are some error exit paths to the label 'out' that end up
> kfree'ing an uninitialized im_node.  Fix this by inititializing
> im_node to NULL to avoid kfree'ing a garbage address.

this fix already landed. See:
commit d140199af510 ("bpf, lpm: fix kfree of im_node in trie_update_elem")

> Issue found by CoverityScan, CID#1398022 ("Uninitialized pointer read")

Nice. Good to know that static analysis can do such checks.

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[PATCH] bpf: don't kfree an uninitialized im_node Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> - 2017-01-24 15:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] bpf: don't kfree an uninitialized im_node Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> - 2017-01-24 19:00 +0100

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