On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 6:42 AM Colin King <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
>
> The call to nla_nest_start_noflag can return null in the unlikely
> event that nla_put returns -EMSGSIZE.  Check for this condition to
> avoid a null pointer dereference on pointer nla_reply.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return value")
> Fixes: 11efd5cb04a1 ("openvswitch: Support conntrack zone limit")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
> ---
>  net/openvswitch/conntrack.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
> index c4128082f88b..333ec5f298fe 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
> @@ -2175,6 +2175,10 @@ static int ovs_ct_limit_cmd_get(struct sk_buff *skb, 
> struct genl_info *info)
>                 return PTR_ERR(reply);
>
>         nla_reply = nla_nest_start_noflag(reply, 
> OVS_CT_LIMIT_ATTR_ZONE_LIMIT);
> +       if (!nla_reply) {
> +               err = -EMSGSIZE;
> +               goto exit_err;
> +       }
>
>         if (a[OVS_CT_LIMIT_ATTR_ZONE_LIMIT]) {
>                 err = ovs_ct_limit_get_zone_limit(
> --
Thanks for the bug fix.  Should it be on net rather than net-next?

Acked-by: Yi-Hung Wei <[email protected]>
_______________________________________________
dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev

Reply via email to