linux-kernel - [PATCH] RDMA/nldev: add check for null return from call to nlmsg

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Date:   Thu, 16 May 2019 14:12:15 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] RDMA/nldev: add check for null return from call to nlmsg_put

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

It is possible that nlmsg_put can return a null pointer, currently
this will lead to a null pointer dereference when passing a null
nlh pointer to nlmsg_end.  Fix this by adding a null pointer check.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return value")
Fixes: cb7e0e130503 ("RDMA/core: Add interface to read device namespace sharing mode")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
index 69188cbbd99b..4dc43b6c5a28 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
@@ -1367,6 +1367,10 @@ static int nldev_sys_get_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 			RDMA_NL_GET_TYPE(RDMA_NL_NLDEV,
 					 RDMA_NLDEV_CMD_SYS_GET),
 			0, 0);
+	if (!nlh) {
+		nlmsg_free(msg);
+		return -EMSGSIZE;
+	}
 
 	err = nla_put_u8(msg, RDMA_NLDEV_SYS_ATTR_NETNS_MODE,
 			 (u8)ib_devices_shared_netns);
-- 
2.20.1