netdev - Re: Fw: [Bug 78161] New: Missing NULL check of the return value of nla_nest_start() in function sfb

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:31:36 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bug 78161] New: Missing NULL check of the return value of
 nla_nest_start() in function sfb_dump()

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
> Function nla_nest_start() may return a NULL pointer, and its return value shall
> be checked before used. But in function sfb_dump() after nla_nest_start() is
> called(at net/sched/sch_sfb.c:559), the return value is immediately used as a
> parameter of nla_nest_end() without NULL check. Besides, there is no check
> before the parameter is dereferenced in the callee function nla_nest_end(). So
> an invalid memory access may be triggered.
> The related code snippets in sfb_dump() are as following.
> sfb_dump() @@net/sched/sch_sfb.c:559
> 559         opts = nla_nest_start(skb, TCA_OPTIONS);
> 560         NLA_PUT(skb, TCA_SFB_PARMS, sizeof(opt), &opt);
> 561         return nla_nest_end(skb, opts);

This was fixed by:

commit 7ac2908e4b2edaec60e9090ddb4d9ceb76c05e7d
Author: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 12 03:39:11 2012 +0000

    sch_sfb: Fix missing NULL check
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