Re: [PATCH net] bpf/xskmap: Return ERR_PTR for failure case instead of NULL.

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On 2019-09-24 18:25, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
When kzalloc() failed, NULL was returned to the caller, which
tested the pointer with IS_ERR(), which didn't match, so the
pointer was used later, resulting in a NULL dereference.

Return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) instead of NULL.

Reported-by: syzbot+491c1b7565ba9069ecae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 0402acd683c6 ("xsk: remove AF_XDP socket from map when the socket is released")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Jonathan! You beat me to it! :-P

Acked-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@xxxxxxxxx>

---
  kernel/bpf/xskmap.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/xskmap.c b/kernel/bpf/xskmap.c
index 942c662e2eed..82a1ffe15dfa 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/xskmap.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/xskmap.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static struct xsk_map_node *xsk_map_node_alloc(struct xsk_map *map,
node = kzalloc(sizeof(*node), GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN);
  	if (!node)
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
err = xsk_map_inc(map);
  	if (err) {




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