nvme-tcp: fix a possible UAF when failing to send request
Maurizio Lombardi
mlombard at bsdbackstore.eu
Wed Feb 12 02:28:34 PST 2025
On Wed Feb 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM CET, zhang.guanghui at cestc.cn wrote:
> Hi, Thanks.
> I will test this patch, but I am worried whether it will affect the performance.
> Should we also consider null pointer protection?
Yes, it will likely affect the performance, just check if it works.
Probably it could be optimized by just protecting
nvme_tcp_fail_request(), which AFAICT is the only function in the
nvme_tcp_try_send() code that calls nvme_complete_rq().
Maurizio
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