From 794eb6bf20ebf992c040ea831cd3a9c64b0c1f7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesper Juhl Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:22:54 -0700 Subject: [NETLABEL]: Fix NULL deref in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist_gen() if ifindex not found 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. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Acked-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/netlabel') diff --git a/net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c b/net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c index a547c6320eb..d282ad1570a 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); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2