linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 022/101] tcp: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in tcp_sk

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Date:   Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:58:20 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Dust Li <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 022/101] tcp: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in tcp_sk_exit

[ Upstream commit b506bc975f60f06e13e74adb35e708a23dc4e87c ]

 When tcp_sk_init() failed in inet_ctl_sock_create(),
 'net->ipv4.tcp_congestion_control' will be left
 uninitialized, but tcp_sk_exit() hasn't check for
 that.

 This patch add checking on 'net->ipv4.tcp_congestion_control'
 in tcp_sk_exit() to prevent NULL-ptr dereference.

Fixes: 6670e1524477 ("tcp: Namespace-ify sysctl_tcp_default_congestion_control")
Signed-off-by: Dust Li <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 30fdf891940b..11101cf8693b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -2490,7 +2490,8 @@ static void __net_exit tcp_sk_exit(struct net *net)
 {
 	int cpu;
 
-	module_put(net->ipv4.tcp_congestion_control->owner);
+	if (net->ipv4.tcp_congestion_control)
+		module_put(net->ipv4.tcp_congestion_control->owner);
 
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
 		inet_ctl_sock_destroy(*per_cpu_ptr(net->ipv4.tcp_sk, cpu));
-- 
2.19.1