Re: [PATCH rdma-next 3/3] RDMA/uverbs: Fix incorrect variable type

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On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:54:05AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:55:39AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 09:35:45AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > @@ -336,19 +335,16 @@ static int UVERBS_HANDLER(UVERBS_METHOD_QUERY_GID_TABLE)(
> > >  		attrs, UVERBS_ATTR_QUERY_GID_TABLE_RESP_ENTRIES,
> > >  		user_entry_size);
> > >  	if (max_entries <= 0)
> > > -		return -EINVAL;
> > > +		return max_entries ?: -EINVAL;
> > >
> > >  	ucontext = ib_uverbs_get_ucontext(attrs);
> > >  	if (IS_ERR(ucontext))
> > >  		return PTR_ERR(ucontext);
> > >  	ib_dev = ucontext->device;
> > >
> > > -	if (check_mul_overflow(max_entries, sizeof(*entries), &num_bytes))
> > > -		return -EINVAL;
> > > -
> > > -	entries = uverbs_zalloc(attrs, num_bytes);
> > > -	if (!entries)
> > > -		return -ENOMEM;
> > > +	entries = uverbs_kcalloc(attrs, max_entries, sizeof(*entries));
> > > +	if (IS_ERR(entries))
> > > +		return PTR_ERR(entries);
> >
> > This isn't right.  The uverbs_kcalloc() should match every other
> > kcalloc() function and return NULL on error.  This actually buggy
> > because it returns both is error pointers and NULL so it will lead to
> > a NULL dereference.
> 
> The actual bug was before, when an error result from uverbs_zalloc()
> was treated as NULL. The uverbs_kcalloc/uverbs_zalloc will call to
> _uverbs_alloc() that doesn't return NULL.
> 

Ah....  Thanks.

regards,
dan carpenter




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