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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] nbd_genl_status: null check for nla_nest_start
(Just stumbled upon this patch when link to it came with a CVE bug report.)

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 11:42:26AM -0500, Navid Emamdoost wrote:
> nla_nest_start may fail and return NULL. The check is inserted, and
> errno is selected based on other call sites within the same source code.
> Update: removed extra new line.
>
> Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
> ---
> drivers/block/nbd.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
> index 9bcde2325893..2410812d1e82 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
> @@ -2149,6 +2149,11 @@ static int nbd_genl_status(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
> }
>
> dev_list = nla_nest_start_noflag(reply, NBD_ATTR_DEVICE_LIST);
> + if (!dev_list) {
> + ret = -EMSGSIZE;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> if (index == -1) {
> ret = idr_for_each(&nbd_index_idr, &status_cb, reply);
> if (ret) {

You should also call nlmsg_free(reply) when you bail out so that you
don't introduce a memory leak.

Michal Kubecek

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