netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: prevent possible NULL deref in fib6_nh

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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 08:40:17 -0600
From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, "David S . Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
 syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>, Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: prevent possible NULL deref in fib6_nh_init()

On 6/14/24 2:20 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> syzbot reminds us that in6_dev_get() can return NULL.
> 
> fib6_nh_init()
>     ip6_validate_gw(  &idev  )
>         ip6_route_check_nh(  idev  )
>             *idev = in6_dev_get(dev); // can be NULL
> 

...

> Fixes: 428604fb118f ("ipv6: do not set routes if disable_ipv6 has been enabled")
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>