On 6/7/18 5:07 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >> After recompiling the 4.16.7 kernel with gcc 8.1, UBSAN reports the >> following: >> >> [ 25.427424] >> ================================================================================ >> [ 25.429680] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:503:6 >> [ 25.431920] member access within null pointer of type 'struct tnode' >> [ 25.434153] CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.16.7-CUSTOM #1 >> [ 25.436384] Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. >> H67MA-UD2H-B3/H67MA-UD2H-B3, BIOS F8 03/27/2012 >> [ 25.438647] Call Trace: >> [ 25.440889] dump_stack+0x62/0x9f >> [ 25.443104] ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x35 >> [ 25.445293] handle_null_ptr_deref+0x80/0x90 >> [ 25.447464] __ubsan_handle_type_mismatch_v1+0x6a/0x80 >> [ 25.449628] tnode_free+0xce/0x120
arguably this one should be guarded: diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c index 5bc0c89e81e4..32c589059fb3 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c @@ -501,7 +501,8 @@ static void tnode_free(struct key_vector *tn) tnode_free_size += TNODE_SIZE(1ul << tn->bits); node_free(tn); - tn = container_of(head, struct tnode, rcu)->kv; + if (head) + tn = container_of(head, struct tnode, rcu)->kv; } if (tnode_free_size >= PAGE_SIZE * sync_pages) { but if head is NULL, tn is set but not dereferenced as the loop breaks.