On Tue Jul 9, 2024 at 5:33 AM EEST, Hao Ge wrote: > From: Hao Ge <gehao@xxxxxxxxxx> > > We shouldn't dereference "auth" until after we have checked that it is > non-NULL. Sorry for some latency in responses. I'm on holiday up until week 31 and only look at emerging issues but not every day. I do agree with the code change but the description contains no information of the bug and how the fix resolves it. Could you please rewrite the description? I can only think this realizing with tpm_ibmvtpm and TCG_TPM2_HMAC enabled because it was according to recent learnings a platform which does not end up calling tpm2_sessions_init(). Since you bug report contains no bug report, I need to ask that did you realize a regression in some platform? Fix will get eventually accepted even if the bug was found by "looking at code" but the gist here is that your bug description contains no description how you found the bug, which it should. When TCG_TPM2_HMAC is disable it should be safe because we have: static inline int tpm_buf_check_hmac_response(struct tpm_chip *chip, struct tpm_buf *buf, int rc) { return rc; } I also noticed that your fixes tag is incorrect as that null dereference pre-existed on tpm_ibmvtpm before my fixes. It is not a new regression introduced by my patches. So use git blame and check which commit introduced that one. Address these issues and send v2. Thank you! BR, Jarkko