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authorMuhammad Usama Anjum <musamaanjum@gmail.com>2021-04-09 03:01:29 +0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-04-16 12:00:20 +0200
commitcfb476f1d9ec137052a2fb6b5609a622a4248289 (patch)
tree446a717e83cf8b1dca9e2f7493f483243dd65550
parent77de34b9f5029d68a47c00d9b462e425c546d679 (diff)
net: ipv6: check for validity before dereferencing cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh
commit 864db232dc7036aa2de19749c3d5be0143b24f8f upstream. nlh is being checked for validtity two times when it is dereferenced in this function. Check for validity again when updating the flags through nlh pointer to make the dereferencing safe. CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Addresses-Coverity: ("NULL pointer dereference") Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <musamaanjum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/route.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 50eba77f5a0d..f06a76878746 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -2980,9 +2980,11 @@ static int ip6_route_multipath_add(struct fib6_config *cfg)
* nexthops have been replaced by first new, the rest should
* be added to it.
*/
- cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh->nlmsg_flags &= ~(NLM_F_EXCL |
- NLM_F_REPLACE);
- cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh->nlmsg_flags |= NLM_F_CREATE;
+ if (cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh) {
+ cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh->nlmsg_flags &= ~(NLM_F_EXCL |
+ NLM_F_REPLACE);
+ cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh->nlmsg_flags |= NLM_F_CREATE;
+ }
nhn++;
}