netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6/addrconf: fix potential NULL deref in inet6_set_link

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Date:   Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:13:00 +0100 (CET)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
        syzkaller@...glegroups.com, maximmi@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6/addrconf: fix potential NULL deref in
 inet6_set_link_af()

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Wed,  5 Feb 2020 08:55:44 -0800

> __in6_dev_get(dev) called from inet6_set_link_af() can return NULL.
> 
> The needed check has been recently removed, let's add it back.

I am having trouble understanding this one.

When we have a do_setlink operation the flow is that we first validate
the AFs and then invoke setlink operations after that validation.

do_setlink() {
 ..
	err = validate_linkmsg(dev, tb);
	if (err < 0)
		return err;
 ..
	if (tb[IFLA_AF_SPEC]) {
 ...
			err = af_ops->set_link_af(dev, af);
			if (err < 0) {
				rcu_read_unlock();
				goto errout;
			}

By definition, we only get to ->set_link_af() if there is an
IFLA_AF_SPEC nested attribute and if we look at the validation
performed by validate_linkmsg() it goes:

	if (tb[IFLA_AF_SPEC]) {
 ...
			if (af_ops->validate_link_af) {
				err = af_ops->validate_link_af(dev, af);
 ...

And validate_link_af in net/ipv6/addrconf.c clearly does the
following:

static int inet6_validate_link_af(const struct net_device *dev,
				  const struct nlattr *nla)
 ...
	if (dev) {
		idev = __in6_dev_get(dev);
		if (!idev)
			return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
	}
 ...

It checks the idev and makes sure it is not-NULL.

I therefore cannot find a path by which we arrive at inet6_set_link_af
with a NULL idev.  The above validation code should trap it.

Please explain.

Thank you.