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Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 22:47:15 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC: akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
"Steffen Klassert" <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
"Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 193/233] xfrm: NULL dereference on allocation failure
3.16.48-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
commit e747f64336fc15e1c823344942923195b800aa1e upstream.
The default error code in pfkey_msg2xfrm_state() is -ENOBUFS. We
added a new call to security_xfrm_state_alloc() which sets "err" to zero
so there several places where we can return ERR_PTR(0) if kmalloc()
fails. The caller is expecting error pointers so it leads to a NULL
dereference.
Fixes: df71837d5024 ("[LSM-IPSec]: Security association restriction.")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
net/key/af_key.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/key/af_key.c
+++ b/net/key/af_key.c
@@ -1156,6 +1156,7 @@ static struct xfrm_state * pfkey_msg2xfr
goto out;
}
+ err = -ENOBUFS;
key = ext_hdrs[SADB_EXT_KEY_AUTH - 1];
if (sa->sadb_sa_auth) {
int keysize = 0;
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