* [PATCH] Don't potentially dereference NULL in net/dcb/dcbnl.c:dcbnl_getapp()
@ 2011-02-10 21:57 Jesper Juhl
2011-02-13 19:21 ` David Miller
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jesper Juhl @ 2011-02-10 21:57 UTC (permalink / raw
To: linux-kernel
Cc: netdev, Alexey Dobriyan, Dan Carpenter, Shmulik Ravid,
John Fastabend, David S. Miller, Lucy Liu
nla_nest_start() may return NULL. If it does then we'll blow up in
nla_nest_end() when we dereference the pointer.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
dcbnl.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
only compile tested.
diff --git a/net/dcb/dcbnl.c b/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
index 6b03f56..13cdc30 100644
--- a/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
+++ b/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
@@ -626,6 +626,9 @@ static int dcbnl_getapp(struct net_device *netdev, struct nlattr **tb,
dcb->cmd = DCB_CMD_GAPP;
app_nest = nla_nest_start(dcbnl_skb, DCB_ATTR_APP);
+ if (!app_nest)
+ goto out_cancel;
+
ret = nla_put_u8(dcbnl_skb, DCB_APP_ATTR_IDTYPE, idtype);
if (ret)
goto out_cancel;
--
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* Re: [PATCH] Don't potentially dereference NULL in net/dcb/dcbnl.c:dcbnl_getapp()
2011-02-10 21:57 [PATCH] Don't potentially dereference NULL in net/dcb/dcbnl.c:dcbnl_getapp() Jesper Juhl
@ 2011-02-13 19:21 ` David Miller
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2011-02-13 19:21 UTC (permalink / raw
To: jj
Cc: linux-kernel, netdev, adobriyan, error27, shmulikr,
john.r.fastabend, lucy.liu
From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:57:16 +0100 (CET)
> nla_nest_start() may return NULL. If it does then we'll blow up in
> nla_nest_end() when we dereference the pointer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Applied.
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