[PATCH] net: microchip: sparx5: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in debugfs

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Wed Feb 12 05:49:38 PST 2025


On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 05:18:46PM +0800, Wentao Liang wrote:
> In vcap_debugfs_show_rule_keyset(), the function vcap_keyfields()
> returns a NULL pointer upon allocation failure.

/* Return the list of keyfields for the keyset */
const struct vcap_field *vcap_keyfields(struct vcap_control *vctrl,
					enum vcap_type vt,
					enum vcap_keyfield_set keyset)
{
	/* Check that the keyset exists in the vcap keyset list */
	if (keyset >= vctrl->vcaps[vt].keyfield_set_size)
		return NULL;
	return vctrl->vcaps[vt].keyfield_set_map[keyset];
}

I don't see any allocations here which can fail. I do agree it can
return NULL thought. So you code change looks correct, but you commit
message is broken.


    Andrew

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