Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 May 2019 16:56:10 +0300 | From | Leon Romanovsky <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] RDMA/nldev: add check for null return from call to nlmsg_put |
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On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 02:12:15PM +0100, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > > It is possible that nlmsg_put can return a null pointer, currently > this will lead to a null pointer dereference when passing a null > nlh pointer to nlmsg_end. Fix this by adding a null pointer check. > > Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return value") > Fixes: cb7e0e130503 ("RDMA/core: Add interface to read device namespace sharing mode") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > --- > drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c > index 69188cbbd99b..4dc43b6c5a28 100644 > --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c > @@ -1367,6 +1367,10 @@ static int nldev_sys_get_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, > RDMA_NL_GET_TYPE(RDMA_NL_NLDEV, > RDMA_NLDEV_CMD_SYS_GET), > 0, 0);
It is impossible situation due to "0" in payload field above.
> + if (!nlh) { > + nlmsg_free(msg); > + return -EMSGSIZE; > + } > > err = nla_put_u8(msg, RDMA_NLDEV_SYS_ATTR_NETNS_MODE, > (u8)ib_devices_shared_netns); > -- > 2.20.1 >
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