On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 06:19:32PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
>
> Currently the assignment of cnt dereferences pointer 'record' before
> the pointer has been null checked. Fix this by only making this
> dereference after it has been null checked close to the point cnt
> is to be used.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
> Fixes: 637ce64e7f57 ("pstore/zone,blk: Add support for pmsg frontend")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
> ---
> fs/pstore/zone.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/zone.c b/fs/pstore/zone.c
> index c5bf3b9f644f..3cf7d6762c76 100644
> --- a/fs/pstore/zone.c
> +++ b/fs/pstore/zone.c
> @@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ static int notrace psz_record_write(struct pstore_zone
> *zone,
> struct pstore_record *record)
> {
> size_t start, rem;
> - int cnt = record->size;
> + int cnt;
> bool is_full_data = false;
> char *buf = record->buf;
Also here. I'll fix both. Thanks!
-Kees
>
> @@ -835,6 +835,7 @@ static int notrace psz_record_write(struct pstore_zone
> *zone,
> if (atomic_read(&zone->buffer->datalen) >= zone->buffer_size)
> is_full_data = true;
>
> + cnt = record->size;
> if (unlikely(cnt > zone->buffer_size)) {
> buf += cnt - zone->buffer_size;
> cnt = zone->buffer_size;
> --
> 2.25.1
>
--
Kees Cook
