This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ipv4: Fix the warning for dereference
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-ipv4-fix-the-warning-for-dereference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b240adf93f16b55cc86905b2530e399eb246263f
Author: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Aug 30 17:16:40 2021 +0800
net: ipv4: Fix the warning for dereference
[ Upstream commit 1b9fbe813016b08e08b22ddba4ddbf9cb1b04b00 ]
Add a if statements to avoid the warning.
Dan Carpenter report:
The patch faf482ca196a: "net: ipv4: Move ip_options_fragment() out of
loop" from Aug 23, 2021, leads to the following Smatch complaint:
net/ipv4/ip_output.c:833 ip_do_fragment()
warn: variable dereferenced before check 'iter.frag' (see line 828)
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: faf482ca196a ("net: ipv4: Move ip_options_fragment() out of loop")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210830073802.GR7722@kadam/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index fb91a466b2d34..e77afaecc9818 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -833,7 +833,9 @@ int ip_do_fragment(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
/* Everything is OK. Generate! */
ip_fraglist_init(skb, iph, hlen, &iter);
- ip_options_fragment(iter.frag);
+
+ if (iter.frag)
+ ip_options_fragment(iter.frag);
for (;;) {
/* Prepare header of the next frame,
