[PATCH v2] net: fix NULL pointer reference in cipso_v4_doi_free

王贇 yun.wang at linux.alibaba.com
Wed Sep 1 01:51:28 UTC 2021



On 2021/8/31 下午9:48, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:42 PM 王贇 <yun.wang at linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>> On 2021/8/31 上午12:50, Paul Moore wrote:
>> [SNIP]
>>>>>> Reported-by: Abaci <abaci at linux.alibaba.com>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <yun.wang at linux.alibaba.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>  net/netlabel/netlabel_cipso_v4.c | 4 ++--
>>>>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> I see this was already merged, but it looks good to me, thanks for
>>>>> making those changes.
>>>>
>>>> FWIW it looks like v1 was also merged:
>>>>
>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=733c99ee8b
>>>
>>> Yeah, that is unfortunate, there was a brief discussion about that
>>> over on one of the -stable patches for the v1 patch (odd that I never
>>> saw a patchbot post for the v1 patch?).  Having both merged should be
>>> harmless, but we want to revert the v1 patch as soon as we can.
>>> Michael, can you take care of this?
>>
>> As v1 already merged, may be we could just goon with it?
>>
>> Actually both working to fix the problem, v1 will cover all the
>> cases, v2 take care one case since that's currently the only one,
>> but maybe there will be more in future.
> 
> No.  Please revert v1 and stick with the v2 patch.  The v1 patch is in
> my opinion a rather ugly hack that addresses the symptom of the
> problem and not the root cause.
> 
> It isn't your fault that both v1 and v2 were merged, but I'm asking
> you to help cleanup the mess.  If you aren't able to do that please
> let us know so that others can fix this properly.

No problem I can help on that, just try to make sure it's not a
meaningless work.

So would it be fine to send out a v3 which revert v1 and apply v2?

Regards,
Michael Wang

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