linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: sched: Fix a possible null-pointer dereference in dequeue

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:21:57 +0800
From:   Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
To:     jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us,
        davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: sched: Fix a possible null-pointer dereference in dequeue_func()

In dequeue_func(), there is an if statement on line 74 to check whether
skb is NULL:
    if (skb)

When skb is NULL, it is used on line 77:
    prefetch(&skb->end);

Thus, a possible null-pointer dereference may occur.

To fix this bug, skb->end is used when skb is not NULL.

This bug is found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by us.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
---
 net/sched/sch_codel.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_codel.c b/net/sched/sch_codel.c
index 25ef172c23df..30169b3adbbb 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_codel.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_codel.c
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *dequeue_func(struct codel_vars *vars, void *ctx)
 	struct Qdisc *sch = ctx;
 	struct sk_buff *skb = __qdisc_dequeue_head(&sch->q);
 
-	if (skb)
+	if (skb) {
 		sch->qstats.backlog -= qdisc_pkt_len(skb);
-
-	prefetch(&skb->end); /* we'll need skb_shinfo() */
+		prefetch(&skb->end); /* we'll need skb_shinfo() */
+	}
 	return skb;
 }
 
-- 
2.17.0