Messages in this thread | | | From | Kees Cook <> | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2019 15:58:40 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] um: vector: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in 'vector_net_open()' |
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 1:57 AM Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > 'create_queue()' returns NULL in case of memory allocation failure. So we > must check if it succeeds in order to avoid potential NULL pointer > dereference. > > For 'vp->rx_queue', the dereference would occur just one line after the > failed allocation. For 'vp->tx_queue', it would occur later during normal > processing. > > Fixes: 49da7e64f33e ("High Performance UML Vector Network Driver") > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
-Kees
> --- > arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c > index 046fa9ea0ccc..5b917716289d 100644 > --- a/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c > +++ b/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c > @@ -1182,6 +1182,8 @@ static int vector_net_open(struct net_device *dev) > vp->rx_header_size, > MAX_IOV_SIZE > ); > + if (!vp->rx_queue) > + goto out_close; > vp->rx_queue->queue_depth = get_depth(vp->parsed); > } else { > vp->header_rxbuffer = kmalloc( > @@ -1198,6 +1200,8 @@ static int vector_net_open(struct net_device *dev) > vp->header_size, > MAX_IOV_SIZE > ); > + if (!vp->tx_queue) > + goto out_close; > } else { > vp->header_txbuffer = kmalloc(vp->header_size, GFP_KERNEL); > if (vp->header_txbuffer == NULL) > -- > 2.19.1 >
-- Kees Cook
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