Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Jul 2019 10:32:00 +0200 | From | Steffen Klassert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: key: af_key: Fix possible null-pointer dereferences in pfkey_send_policy_notify() |
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:15:55PM +0100, Jeremy Sowden wrote: > On 2019-07-26, at 11:45:14 +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 05:35:09PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote: > > > > > > diff --git a/net/key/af_key.c b/net/key/af_key.c > > > index b67ed3a8486c..ced54144d5fd 100644 > > > --- a/net/key/af_key.c > > > +++ b/net/key/af_key.c > > > @@ -3087,6 +3087,8 @@ static int pfkey_send_policy_notify(struct xfrm_policy *xp, int dir, const struc > > > case XFRM_MSG_DELPOLICY: > > > case XFRM_MSG_NEWPOLICY: > > > case XFRM_MSG_UPDPOLICY: > > > + if (!xp) > > > + break; > > > > I think this can not happen. Who sends one of these notifications > > without a pointer to the policy? > > I had a quick grep and found two places where km_policy_notify is passed > NULL as the policy: > > $ grep -rn '\<km_policy_notify(NULL,' net/ > net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:2154: km_policy_notify(NULL, 0, &c); > net/key/af_key.c:2788: km_policy_notify(NULL, 0, &c); > > They occur in xfrm_flush_policy() and pfkey_spdflush() respectively.
Yes, but these two send a XFRM_MSG_FLUSHPOLICY notify. This does not trigger the code that is changed here.
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