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Date:   Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:13:25 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Defang Bo <bodefang@....com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, johan@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfc: Ensure presence of NFC_ATTR_FIRMWARE_NAME
 attribute in nfc_genl_fw_download()

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:38:58 +0800 Defang Bo wrote:
> check that the NFC_ATTR_FIRMWARE_NAME attributes are provided by the netlink client prior to accessing them.This prevents potential unhandled NULL pointer
> dereference exceptions which can be triggered by malicious user-mode programs, if they omit one or both of these attributes. Just similar to commit <a0323b979f81>("nfc: Ensure presence of required attributes in the activate_target handler").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Defang Bo <bodefang@....com>

Applied, thanks.

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