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anon1385 on July 17, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who Says C is Simple?

Even if you don't do something like that a modern C compiler will do all sorts of things behind your back. Like removing null checks[1] or pointer overflow checks[2]

[1] http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2009-1897

[2] http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2008-1685

rapala on July 18, 2013 [–]

Well, to be fair, the NULL check was in a wrong place. The pointer was already dereferenced before the check.

  struct tun_struct *tun = __tun_get(tfile);
  struct sock *sk = tun->sk;
  unsigned int mask = 0;
  
  if (!tun)
    return POLLERR;

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