| CVE |
Vendors |
Products |
Updated |
CVSS v3.1 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
SUNRPC: make sure cache entry active before cache_show
The function `c_show` was called with protection from RCU. This only
ensures that `cp` will not be freed. Therefore, the reference count for
`cp` can drop to zero, which will trigger a refcount use-after-free
warning when `cache_get` is called. To resolve this issue, use
`cache_get_rcu` to ensure that `cp` remains active.
------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 822 at lib/refcount.c:25
refcount_warn_saturate+0xb1/0x120
CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 822 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xb1/0x120
Call Trace:
<TASK>
c_show+0x2fc/0x380 [sunrpc]
seq_read_iter+0x589/0x770
seq_read+0x1e5/0x270
proc_reg_read+0xe1/0x140
vfs_read+0x125/0x530
ksys_read+0xc1/0x160
do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x170
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: sched: fix ordering of qlen adjustment
Changes to sch->q.qlen around qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() need to happen
_before_ a call to said function because otherwise it may fail to notify
parent qdiscs when the child is about to become empty. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-audio: Fix out of bounds reads when finding clock sources
The current USB-audio driver code doesn't check bLength of each
descriptor at traversing for clock descriptors. That is, when a
device provides a bogus descriptor with a shorter bLength, the driver
might hit out-of-bounds reads.
For addressing it, this patch adds sanity checks to the validator
functions for the clock descriptor traversal. When the descriptor
length is shorter than expected, it's skipped in the loop.
For the clock source and clock multiplier descriptors, we can just
check bLength against the sizeof() of each descriptor type.
OTOH, the clock selector descriptor of UAC2 and UAC3 has an array
of bNrInPins elements and two more fields at its tail, hence those
have to be checked in addition to the sizeof() check. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFSD: Prevent a potential integer overflow
If the tag length is >= U32_MAX - 3 then the "length + 4" addition
can result in an integer overflow. Address this by splitting the
decoding into several steps so that decode_cb_compound4res() does
not have to perform arithmetic on the unsafe length value. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched/task_stack: fix object_is_on_stack() for KASAN tagged pointers
When CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS and CONFIG_KASAN_STACK are enabled, the
object_is_on_stack() function may produce incorrect results due to the
presence of tags in the obj pointer, while the stack pointer does not have
tags. This discrepancy can lead to incorrect stack object detection and
subsequently trigger warnings if CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS is also enabled.
Example of the warning:
ODEBUG: object 3eff800082ea7bb0 is NOT on stack ffff800082ea0000, but annotated.
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at lib/debugobjects.c:557 __debug_object_init+0x330/0x364
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5 #4
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : __debug_object_init+0x330/0x364
lr : __debug_object_init+0x330/0x364
sp : ffff800082ea7b40
x29: ffff800082ea7b40 x28: 98ff0000c0164518 x27: 98ff0000c0164534
x26: ffff800082d93ec8 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: 1cff0000c00172a0
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffff800082d93ed0 x21: ffff800081a24418
x20: 3eff800082ea7bb0 x19: efff800000000000 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 00000000000000ff x16: 0000000000000047 x15: 206b63617473206e
x14: 0000000000000018 x13: ffff800082ea7780 x12: 0ffff800082ea78e
x11: 0ffff800082ea790 x10: 0ffff800082ea79d x9 : 34d77febe173e800
x8 : 34d77febe173e800 x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : 0000000000000001
x5 : feff800082ea74b8 x4 : ffff800082870a90 x3 : ffff80008018d3c4
x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : ffff800082858810 x0 : 0000000000000050
Call trace:
__debug_object_init+0x330/0x364
debug_object_init_on_stack+0x30/0x3c
schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock+0xac/0x26c
schedule_hrtimeout+0x1c/0x30
wait_task_inactive+0x1d4/0x25c
kthread_bind_mask+0x28/0x98
init_rescuer+0x1e8/0x280
workqueue_init+0x1a0/0x3cc
kernel_init_freeable+0x118/0x200
kernel_init+0x28/0x1f0
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
ODEBUG: object 3eff800082ea7bb0 is NOT on stack ffff800082ea0000, but annotated.
------------[ cut here ]------------ |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/CPU/AMD: Clear virtualized VMLOAD/VMSAVE on Zen4 client
A number of Zen4 client SoCs advertise the ability to use virtualized
VMLOAD/VMSAVE, but using these instructions is reported to be a cause
of a random host reboot.
These instructions aren't intended to be advertised on Zen4 client
so clear the capability. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs: Fix uninitialized value issue in from_kuid and from_kgid
ocfs2_setattr() uses attr->ia_mode, attr->ia_uid and attr->ia_gid in
a trace point even though ATTR_MODE, ATTR_UID and ATTR_GID aren't set.
Initialize all fields of newattrs to avoid uninitialized variables, by
checking if ATTR_MODE, ATTR_UID, ATTR_GID are initialized, otherwise 0. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
afs: Fix lock recursion
afs_wake_up_async_call() can incur lock recursion. The problem is that it
is called from AF_RXRPC whilst holding the ->notify_lock, but it tries to
take a ref on the afs_call struct in order to pass it to a work queue - but
if the afs_call is already queued, we then have an extraneous ref that must
be put... calling afs_put_call() may call back down into AF_RXRPC through
rxrpc_kernel_shutdown_call(), however, which might try taking the
->notify_lock again.
This case isn't very common, however, so defer it to a workqueue. The oops
looks something like:
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, krxrpcio/7001/1646
lock: 0xffff888141399b30, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: krxrpcio/7001/1646, .owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1646 Comm: krxrpcio/7001 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2-build3+ #4351
Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H97-PLUS, BIOS 2306 10/09/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x47/0x70
do_raw_spin_lock+0x3c/0x90
rxrpc_kernel_shutdown_call+0x83/0xb0
afs_put_call+0xd7/0x180
rxrpc_notify_socket+0xa0/0x190
rxrpc_input_split_jumbo+0x198/0x1d0
rxrpc_input_data+0x14b/0x1e0
? rxrpc_input_call_packet+0xc2/0x1f0
rxrpc_input_call_event+0xad/0x6b0
rxrpc_input_packet_on_conn+0x1e1/0x210
rxrpc_input_packet+0x3f2/0x4d0
rxrpc_io_thread+0x243/0x410
? __pfx_rxrpc_io_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xcf/0xe0
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x24/0x40
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK> |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/i915/hdcp: Add encoder check in intel_hdcp_get_capability
Sometimes during hotplug scenario or suspend/resume scenario encoder is
not always initialized when intel_hdcp_get_capability add
a check to avoid kernel null pointer dereference. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/i915/hdcp: Add encoder check in hdcp2_get_capability
Add encoder check in intel_hdcp2_get_capability to avoid
null pointer error. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm: fix a crash if blk_alloc_disk fails
If blk_alloc_disk fails, the variable md->disk is set to an error value.
cleanup_mapped_device will see that md->disk is non-NULL and it will
attempt to access it, causing a crash on this statement
"md->disk->private_data = NULL;". |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlegacy: Clear stale interrupts before resuming device
iwl4965 fails upon resume from hibernation on my laptop. The reason
seems to be a stale interrupt which isn't being cleared out before
interrupts are enabled. We end up with a race beween the resume
trying to bring things back up, and the restart work (queued form
the interrupt handler) trying to bring things down. Eventually
the whole thing blows up.
Fix the problem by clearing out any stale interrupts before
interrupts get enabled during resume.
Here's a debug log of the indicent:
[ 12.042589] ieee80211 phy0: il_isr ISR inta 0x00000080, enabled 0xaa00008b, fh 0x00000000
[ 12.042625] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_irq_tasklet inta 0x00000080, enabled 0x00000000, fh 0x00000000
[ 12.042651] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to enable radio.
[ 12.042653] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: On demand firmware reload
[ 12.042690] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_irq_tasklet End inta 0x00000000, enabled 0xaa00008b, fh 0x00000000, flags 0x00000282
[ 12.052207] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_mac_start enter
[ 12.052212] ieee80211 phy0: il_prep_station Add STA to driver ID 31: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[ 12.052244] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_set_hw_ready hardware ready
[ 12.052324] ieee80211 phy0: il_apm_init Init card's basic functions
[ 12.052348] ieee80211 phy0: il_apm_init L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S
[ 12.055727] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_load_bsm Begin load bsm
[ 12.056140] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_verify_bsm Begin verify bsm
[ 12.058642] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_verify_bsm BSM bootstrap uCode image OK
[ 12.058721] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_load_bsm BSM write complete, poll 1 iterations
[ 12.058734] ieee80211 phy0: __il4965_up iwl4965 is coming up
[ 12.058737] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_mac_start Start UP work done.
[ 12.058757] ieee80211 phy0: __il4965_down iwl4965 is going down
[ 12.058761] ieee80211 phy0: il_scan_cancel_timeout Scan cancel timeout
[ 12.058762] ieee80211 phy0: il_do_scan_abort Not performing scan to abort
[ 12.058765] ieee80211 phy0: il_clear_ucode_stations Clearing ucode stations in driver
[ 12.058767] ieee80211 phy0: il_clear_ucode_stations No active stations found to be cleared
[ 12.058819] ieee80211 phy0: _il_apm_stop Stop card, put in low power state
[ 12.058827] ieee80211 phy0: _il_apm_stop_master stop master
[ 12.058864] ieee80211 phy0: il4965_clear_free_frames 0 frames on pre-allocated heap on clear.
[ 12.058869] ieee80211 phy0: Hardware restart was requested
[ 16.132299] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: START_ALIVE timeout after 4000ms.
[ 16.132303] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 16.132304] Hardware became unavailable upon resume. This could be a software issue prior to suspend or a hardware issue.
[ 16.132338] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 181 at net/mac80211/util.c:1826 ieee80211_reconfig+0x8f/0x14b0 [mac80211]
[ 16.132390] Modules linked in: ctr ccm sch_fq_codel xt_tcpudp xt_multiport xt_state iptable_filter iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_tables x_tables binfmt_misc joydev mousedev btusb btrtl btintel btbcm bluetooth ecdh_generic ecc iTCO_wdt i2c_dev iwl4965 iwlegacy coretemp snd_hda_codec_analog pcspkr psmouse mac80211 snd_hda_codec_generic libarc4 sdhci_pci cqhci sha256_generic sdhci libsha256 firewire_ohci snd_hda_intel snd_intel_dspcfg mmc_core snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep firewire_core led_class iosf_mbi snd_hda_core uhci_hcd lpc_ich crc_itu_t cfg80211 ehci_pci ehci_hcd snd_pcm usbcore mfd_core rfkill snd_timer snd usb_common soundcore video parport_pc parport intel_agp wmi intel_gtt backlight e1000e agpgart evdev
[ 16.132456] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 181 Comm: kworker/u8:6 Not tainted 6.11.0-cl+ #143
[ 16.132460] Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq 6910p/30BE, BIOS 68MCU Ver. F.19 07/06/2010
[ 16.132463] Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn
[ 16.132469] RIP: 0010:ieee80211_reconfig+0x8f/0x14b0 [mac80211]
[ 16.132501] Code: da 02 00 0
---truncated--- |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
udf: refactor inode_bmap() to handle error
Refactor inode_bmap() to handle error since udf_next_aext() can return
error now. On situations like ftruncate, udf_extend_file() can now
detect errors and bail out early without resorting to checking for
particular offsets and assuming internal behavior of these functions. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: lpfc: Ensure DA_ID handling completion before deleting an NPIV instance
Deleting an NPIV instance requires all fabric ndlps to be released before
an NPIV's resources can be torn down. Failure to release fabric ndlps
beforehand opens kref imbalance race conditions. Fix by forcing the DA_ID
to complete synchronously with usage of wait_queue. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: sisfb: Fix strbuf array overflow
The values of the variables xres and yres are placed in strbuf.
These variables are obtained from strbuf1.
The strbuf1 array contains digit characters
and a space if the array contains non-digit characters.
Then, when executing sprintf(strbuf, "%ux%ux8", xres, yres);
more than 16 bytes will be written to strbuf.
It is suggested to increase the size of the strbuf array to 24.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
udf: fix uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad
Check for overflow when computing alen in udf_current_aext to mitigate
later uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad KMSAN bug[1].
After applying the patch reproducer did not trigger any issue[2].
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8901c4560b7ab5c2f9df
[2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=10242227980000 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/lam: Disable ADDRESS_MASKING in most cases
Linear Address Masking (LAM) has a weakness related to transient
execution as described in the SLAM paper[1]. Unless Linear Address
Space Separation (LASS) is enabled this weakness may be exploitable.
Until kernel adds support for LASS[2], only allow LAM for COMPILE_TEST,
or when speculation mitigations have been disabled at compile time,
otherwise keep LAM disabled.
There are no processors in market that support LAM yet, so currently
nobody is affected by this issue.
[1] SLAM: https://download.vusec.net/papers/slam_sp24.pdf
[2] LASS: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230609183632.48706-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com/
[ dhansen: update SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS -> CPU_MITIGATIONS ] |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/mad: Improve handling of timed out WRs of mad agent
Current timeout handler of mad agent acquires/releases mad_agent_priv
lock for every timed out WRs. This causes heavy locking contention
when higher no. of WRs are to be handled inside timeout handler.
This leads to softlockup with below trace in some use cases where
rdma-cm path is used to establish connection between peer nodes
Trace:
-----
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4 stuck for 26s! [kworker/u128:3:19767]
CPU: 4 PID: 19767 Comm: kworker/u128:3 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE
------- --- 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/01YM03, BIOS 2.4.8 11/26/2019
Workqueue: ib_mad1 timeout_sends [ib_core]
RIP: 0010:__do_softirq+0x78/0x2ac
RSP: 0018:ffffb253449e4f98 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000000001f
RDX: 000000000000001d RSI: 000000003d1879ab RDI: fff363b66fd3a86b
RBP: ffffb253604cbcd8 R08: 0000009065635f3b R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000040 R11: ffffb253449e4ff8 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000040
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8caa1fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fd9ec9db900 CR3: 0000000891934006 CR4: 00000000007706e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df
? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df
? __irq_exit_rcu+0xa1/0xc0
? watchdog_timer_fn+0x1b2/0x210
? __pfx_watchdog_timer_fn+0x10/0x10
? __hrtimer_run_queues+0x127/0x2c0
? hrtimer_interrupt+0xfc/0x210
? __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5c/0x110
? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x37/0x90
? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20
? __do_softirq+0x78/0x2ac
? __do_softirq+0x60/0x2ac
__irq_exit_rcu+0xa1/0xc0
sysvec_call_function_single+0x72/0x90
</IRQ>
<TASK>
asm_sysvec_call_function_single+0x16/0x20
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x14/0x30
RSP: 0018:ffffb253604cbd88 EFLAGS: 00000247
RAX: 000000000001960d RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: ffff8cad2a064800
RDX: 000000008020001b RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff8cad5d39f66c
RBP: ffff8cad5d39f600 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff8caa443e0c00 R11: ffffb253604cbcd8 R12: ffff8cacb8682538
R13: 0000000000000005 R14: ffffb253604cbd90 R15: ffff8cad5d39f66c
cm_process_send_error+0x122/0x1d0 [ib_cm]
timeout_sends+0x1dd/0x270 [ib_core]
process_one_work+0x1e2/0x3b0
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
worker_thread+0x50/0x3a0
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xdd/0x100
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50
</TASK>
Simplified timeout handler by creating local list of timed out WRs
and invoke send handler post creating the list. The new method acquires/
releases lock once to fetch the list and hence helps to reduce locking
contetiong when processing higher no. of WRs |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: n_gsm: Fix use-after-free in gsm_cleanup_mux
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in gsm_cleanup_mux+0x77b/0x7b0
drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:3160 [n_gsm]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88815fe99c00 by task poc/3379
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3379 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.11.0+ #56
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX
Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
Call Trace:
<TASK>
gsm_cleanup_mux+0x77b/0x7b0 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:3160 [n_gsm]
__pfx_gsm_cleanup_mux+0x10/0x10 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:3124 [n_gsm]
__pfx_sched_clock_cpu+0x10/0x10 kernel/sched/clock.c:389
update_load_avg+0x1c1/0x27b0 kernel/sched/fair.c:4500
__pfx_min_vruntime_cb_rotate+0x10/0x10 kernel/sched/fair.c:846
__rb_insert_augmented+0x492/0xbf0 lib/rbtree.c:161
gsmld_ioctl+0x395/0x1450 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:3408 [n_gsm]
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x92/0xf0 arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:107
__pfx_gsmld_ioctl+0x10/0x10 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:3822 [n_gsm]
ktime_get+0x5e/0x140 kernel/time/timekeeping.c:195
ldsem_down_read+0x94/0x4e0 arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:79
__pfx_ldsem_down_read+0x10/0x10 drivers/tty/tty_ldsem.c:338
__pfx_do_vfs_ioctl+0x10/0x10 fs/ioctl.c:805
tty_ioctl+0x643/0x1100 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2818
Allocated by task 65:
gsm_data_alloc.constprop.0+0x27/0x190 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:926 [n_gsm]
gsm_send+0x2c/0x580 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:819 [n_gsm]
gsm1_receive+0x547/0xad0 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:3038 [n_gsm]
gsmld_receive_buf+0x176/0x280 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:3609 [n_gsm]
tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x101/0x1e0 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:391
tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x61/0xa0 drivers/tty/tty_port.c:39
flush_to_ldisc+0x1b0/0x750 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:445
process_scheduled_works+0x2b0/0x10d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3229
worker_thread+0x3dc/0x950 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
kthread+0x2a3/0x370 kernel/kthread.c:389
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:257
Freed by task 3367:
kfree+0x126/0x420 mm/slub.c:4580
gsm_cleanup_mux+0x36c/0x7b0 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:3160 [n_gsm]
gsmld_ioctl+0x395/0x1450 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:3408 [n_gsm]
tty_ioctl+0x643/0x1100 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2818
[Analysis]
gsm_msg on the tx_ctrl_list or tx_data_list of gsm_mux
can be freed by multi threads through ioctl,which leads
to the occurrence of uaf. Protect it by gsm tx lock. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/rtrs-srv: Avoid null pointer deref during path establishment
For RTRS path establishment, RTRS client initiates and completes con_num
of connections. After establishing all its connections, the information
is exchanged between the client and server through the info_req message.
During this exchange, it is essential that all connections have been
established, and the state of the RTRS srv path is CONNECTED.
So add these sanity checks, to make sure we detect and abort process in
error scenarios to avoid null pointer deref. |