tipc: check nl sock before parsing nested attributes
authorRichard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
Mon, 16 May 2016 09:14:54 +0000 (11:14 +0200)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 03:07:28 +0000 (23:07 -0400)
[ Upstream commit 45e093ae2830cd1264677d47ff9a95a71f5d9f9c ]

Make sure the socket for which the user is listing publication exists
before parsing the socket netlink attributes.

Prior to this patch a call without any socket caused a NULL pointer
dereference in tipc_nl_publ_dump().

Tested-and-reported-by: Baozeng Ding <sploving1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.cm>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
net/tipc/socket.c

index 20cc6df071576e056359ced99b46c96106e5fa3e..d41d424b991372db891146a7c7ae427d9e6e8992 100644 (file)
@@ -2804,6 +2804,9 @@ int tipc_nl_publ_dump(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
                if (err)
                        return err;
 
+               if (!attrs[TIPC_NLA_SOCK])
+                       return -EINVAL;
+
                err = nla_parse_nested(sock, TIPC_NLA_SOCK_MAX,
                                       attrs[TIPC_NLA_SOCK],
                                       tipc_nl_sock_policy);