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authorColin Ian King2018-03-26 12:27:12 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller2018-03-27 10:38:26 -0400
commit8daf1a2d7e40685054ebae680733d822ced6df62 (patch)
treed3f650d83596587b191d5d14bca64b26c58414a5 /net/ncsi
parent5306653850b444452937834adc5a5ac63bae275e (diff)
net/ncsi: check for null return from call to nla_nest_start
The call to nla_nest_start calls nla_put which can lead to a NULL return so it's possible for attr to become NULL and we can potentially get a NULL pointer dereference on attr. Fix this by checking for a NULL return. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1466125 ("Dereference null return") Fixes: 955dc68cb9b2 ("net/ncsi: Add generic netlink family") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ncsi')
-rw-r--r--net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
index 05fcfb4fbe1d..8d7e849d4825 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
@@ -190,6 +190,10 @@ static int ncsi_pkg_info_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info)
package_id = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NCSI_ATTR_PACKAGE_ID]);
attr = nla_nest_start(skb, NCSI_ATTR_PACKAGE_LIST);
+ if (!attr) {
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
+ }
rc = ncsi_write_package_info(skb, ndp, package_id);
if (rc) {