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Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 14:45:53 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: Markus Wichmann <nullplan@....net>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com, "zhuyan (M)" <zhuyan34@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix coredump when sched_rr_get_interval parameter
ts is NULL
On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 05:47:37PM +0200, Markus Wichmann wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 02:46:56PM +0000, zhuyan (M) wrote:
> > In function sched_rr_get_interval, there is a risk of null pointer
> > reference. On line 12, when ts is NULL, dereferencing the null
> > pointer will cause the program coredump.
> >
> > Therefore, it must ensure that ts is not empty before use.
> >
>
> Is calling this function with a NULL pointer sensible? The manpage
> certainly doesn't say so. Usually policy in musl is to not fix
> application bugs, but to dereference pointers without NULL pointer check
> unless there is an explicit requirement in the relevant standards that a
> NULL pointer be accepted.
Indeed, sched_rr_get_interval has no contract to accept a null
pointer, and doesn't even have a plausible reason to want to call it
with one (the only output is in the pointed-to memory).
Rich
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