netdev - [PATCH net] net: fib: fib6_add: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

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Message-Id: <1378559600-15858-1-git-send-email-dborkman@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat,  7 Sep 2013 15:13:20 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Lin Ming <mlin@...pku.edu.cn>,
	Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@....com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: fib: fib6_add: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

When the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_IPV6_SUBTREES, and we return
with an error in fn = fib6_add_1(), then error codes are encoded into
the return pointer e.g. ERR_PTR(-ENOENT). In such an error case, we
write the error code into err and jump to out, hence enter the if(err)
condition. Now, if CONFIG_IPV6_SUBTREES is enabled, we check for:

  if (pn != fn && pn->leaf == rt)
    ...
  if (pn != fn && !pn->leaf && !(pn->fn_flags & RTN_RTINFO))
    ...

Since pn is NULL and fn is f.e. ERR_PTR(-ENOENT), then pn != fn
evaluates to true and causes a NULL-pointer dereference on further
checks on pn. Fix it, by setting both NULL in error case, so that
pn != fn already evaluates to false and no further dereference
takes place.

This was first correctly implemented in 4a287eba2 ("IPv6 routing,
NLM_F_* flag support: REPLACE and EXCL flags support, warn about
missing CREATE flag"), but the bug got later on introduced by
188c517a0 ("ipv6: return errno pointers consistently for fib6_add_1()").

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <mlin@...pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@....com>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
index 73db48e..5bec666 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
@@ -825,9 +825,9 @@ int fib6_add(struct fib6_node *root, struct rt6_info *rt, struct nl_info *info)
 	fn = fib6_add_1(root, &rt->rt6i_dst.addr, rt->rt6i_dst.plen,
 			offsetof(struct rt6_info, rt6i_dst), allow_create,
 			replace_required);
-
 	if (IS_ERR(fn)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(fn);
+		fn = NULL;
 		goto out;
 	}

-- 
1.7.11.7

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