Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:08:58 +0200 (CEST) | Subject | [PATCH][netlabel] Don't risk NULL ptr deref in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist_gen() if ifindex not found | From | Jesper Juhl <> |
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Hi,
dev_get_by_index() may return NULL if nothing is found. In net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c::netlbl_unlabel_staticlist_gen() the function is called, but the return value is never checked. If it returns NULL then we'll deref a NULL pointer on the very next line. I checked the callers, and I don't think this can actually happen today, but code changes over time and in the future it might happen and it does no harm to be defensive and check for the failure, so that if/when it happens we'll fail gracefully instead of crashing.
Please consider the patch below for inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> ---
netlabel_unlabeled.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c b/net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c index 4478f2f..6af9457 100644 --- a/net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c +++ b/net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c @@ -1339,6 +1339,10 @@ static int netlbl_unlabel_staticlist_gen(u32 cmd, if (iface->ifindex > 0) { dev = dev_get_by_index(&init_net, iface->ifindex); + if (!dev) { + ret_val = -ENODEV; + goto list_cb_failure; + } ret_val = nla_put_string(cb_arg->skb, NLBL_UNLABEL_A_IFACE, dev->name); dev_put(dev);
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