netdev - [PATCH net] ieee802154: Prevent user from crashing the host

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Message-Id: <20230301154450.547716-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Date:   Wed,  1 Mar 2023 16:44:50 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>,
        Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>,
        linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org,
        David Girault <david.girault@...vo.com>,
        Romuald Despres <romuald.despres@...vo.com>,
        Frederic Blain <frederic.blain@...vo.com>,
        Nicolas Schodet <nico@...fr.eu.org>,
        Guilhem Imberton <guilhem.imberton@...vo.com>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Sanan Hasanov <sanan.hasanov@...ghts.ucf.edu>
Subject: [PATCH net] ieee802154: Prevent user from crashing the host

Avoid crashing the machine by checking
info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE] presence before de-referencing it,
which was the primary intend of the blamed patch.

Reported-by: Sanan Hasanov <sanan.hasanov@...ghts.ucf.edu>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Fixes: a0b6106672b5 ("ieee802154: Convert scan error messages to extack")
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
---
 net/ieee802154/nl802154.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c
index 88380606af2c..a18fb98a4b09 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c
@@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ static int nl802154_trigger_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
 
-	if (!nla_get_u8(info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE])) {
+	if (!info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE]) {
 		NL_SET_ERR_MSG(info->extack, "Malformed request, missing scan type");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-- 
2.34.1