[rds-devel] [PATCH] net: rds: Fix possible null-pointer dereferences in rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn()

[David Miller]

From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990 at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 22:17:05 +0800

> In rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn(), there are some if statements to
> check whether conn is NULL, such as on lines 65, 96 and 112.
> But conn is not checked before being used on line 108:
>     trans->cm_connect_complete(conn, event);
> and on lines 140-143:
>     rdsdebug("DISCONNECT event - dropping connection "
>             "%pI6c->%pI6c\n", &conn->c_laddr,
>             &conn->c_faddr);
>     rds_conn_drop(conn);
> 
> Thus, possible null-pointer dereferences may occur.
> 
> To fix these bugs, conn is checked before being used.
> 
> These bugs are found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by us.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990 at gmail.com>

Applied.