netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix possible NULL deref in lowpan_device

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Message-Id: <20180305.120043.460580025683278621.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:00:43 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, alex.aring@...il.com,
        stefan@....samsung.com, linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix possible NULL deref in
 lowpan_device_event()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:51:03 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> A tun device type can trivially be set to arbitrary value using
> TUNSETLINK ioctl().
> 
> Therefore, lowpan_device_event() must really check that ieee802154_ptr
> is not NULL.
> 
> Fixes: 2c88b5283f60d ("ieee802154: 6lowpan: remove check on null")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>
> Cc: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@....samsung.com>
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>

Adding linux-wpan list.

> ---
>  net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c |   12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c
> index 974765b7d92a..e9f0489e4229 100644
> --- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c
> +++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c
> @@ -206,9 +206,13 @@ static inline void lowpan_netlink_fini(void)
>  static int lowpan_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
>  			       unsigned long event, void *ptr)
>  {
> -	struct net_device *wdev = netdev_notifier_info_to_dev(ptr);
> +	struct net_device *ndev = netdev_notifier_info_to_dev(ptr);
> +	struct wpan_dev *wpan_dev;
>  
> -	if (wdev->type != ARPHRD_IEEE802154)
> +	if (ndev->type != ARPHRD_IEEE802154)
> +		return NOTIFY_DONE;
> +	wpan_dev = ndev->ieee802154_ptr;
> +	if (!wpan_dev)
>  		return NOTIFY_DONE;
>  
>  	switch (event) {
> @@ -217,8 +221,8 @@ static int lowpan_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
>  		 * also delete possible lowpan interfaces which belongs
>  		 * to the wpan interface.
>  		 */
> -		if (wdev->ieee802154_ptr->lowpan_dev)
> -			lowpan_dellink(wdev->ieee802154_ptr->lowpan_dev, NULL);
> +		if (wpan_dev->lowpan_dev)
> +			lowpan_dellink(wpan_dev->lowpan_dev, NULL);
>  		break;
>  	default:
>  		return NOTIFY_DONE;
>