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authorGaurav Singh <gaurav1086@gmail.com>2020-06-12 21:53:27 +0300
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2020-06-16 15:55:35 +0300
commit6903cdae9f9f08d61e49c16cbef11c293e33a615 (patch)
tree45ae1c002cf32dd421cb5dce9223d9d3b495086c /samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c
parentc34a06c56df7c513cd19f591b26fe7d814c778cc (diff)
downloadlinux-6903cdae9f9f08d61e49c16cbef11c293e33a615.tar.xz
bpf, xdp, samples: Fix null pointer dereference in *_user code
Memset on the pointer right after malloc can cause a NULL pointer deference if it failed to allocate memory. A simple fix is to replace malloc()/memset() pair with a simple call to calloc(). Fixes: 0fca931a6f21 ("samples/bpf: program demonstrating access to xdp_rxq_info") Signed-off-by: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c')
-rw-r--r--samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c13
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c b/samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c
index 4fe47502ebed..caa4e7ffcfc7 100644
--- a/samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c
+++ b/samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c
@@ -198,11 +198,8 @@ static struct datarec *alloc_record_per_cpu(void)
{
unsigned int nr_cpus = bpf_num_possible_cpus();
struct datarec *array;
- size_t size;
- size = sizeof(struct datarec) * nr_cpus;
- array = malloc(size);
- memset(array, 0, size);
+ array = calloc(nr_cpus, sizeof(struct datarec));
if (!array) {
fprintf(stderr, "Mem alloc error (nr_cpus:%u)\n", nr_cpus);
exit(EXIT_FAIL_MEM);
@@ -214,11 +211,8 @@ static struct record *alloc_record_per_rxq(void)
{
unsigned int nr_rxqs = bpf_map__def(rx_queue_index_map)->max_entries;
struct record *array;
- size_t size;
- size = sizeof(struct record) * nr_rxqs;
- array = malloc(size);
- memset(array, 0, size);
+ array = calloc(nr_rxqs, sizeof(struct record));
if (!array) {
fprintf(stderr, "Mem alloc error (nr_rxqs:%u)\n", nr_rxqs);
exit(EXIT_FAIL_MEM);
@@ -232,8 +226,7 @@ static struct stats_record *alloc_stats_record(void)
struct stats_record *rec;
int i;
- rec = malloc(sizeof(*rec));
- memset(rec, 0, sizeof(*rec));
+ rec = calloc(1, sizeof(struct stats_record));
if (!rec) {
fprintf(stderr, "Mem alloc error\n");
exit(EXIT_FAIL_MEM);