linux-kernel - [PATCH][next] mqprio: fix potential null pointer dereference on opt

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Message-Id: <20171017150130.23606-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:01:30 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] mqprio: fix potential null pointer dereference on opt

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

The pointer opt has a null check however before for this check opt is
dereferenced when len is initialized, hence we potentially have a null
pointer deference on opt.  Avoid this by checking for a null opt before
dereferencing it.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1458234 ("Dereference before null check")

Fixes: 4e8b86c06269 ("mqprio: Introduce new hardware offload mode and shaper in mqprio")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 net/sched/sch_mqprio.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c b/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c
index f1ae9be83934..37d5fd9b617c 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static int mqprio_init(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt)
 	struct nlattr *tb[TCA_MQPRIO_MAX + 1];
 	struct nlattr *attr;
 	int rem;
-	int len = nla_len(opt) - NLA_ALIGN(sizeof(*qopt));
+	int len;
 
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(TC_MAX_QUEUE != TC_QOPT_MAX_QUEUE);
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(TC_BITMASK != TC_QOPT_BITMASK);
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ static int mqprio_init(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt)
 	if (mqprio_parse_opt(dev, qopt))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	len = nla_len(opt) - NLA_ALIGN(sizeof(*qopt));
 	if (len > 0) {
 		err = parse_attr(tb, TCA_MQPRIO_MAX, opt, mqprio_policy,
 				 sizeof(*qopt));
-- 
2.14.1