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rtnetlink: Fix null-ptr-deref in rtnl_newlink
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In rtnl_newlink(), NULL check is performed on m_ops however member of
ops is accessed. Fixed by accessing member of m_ops instead of ops.

[  345.432629] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in rtnl_newlink+0x400/0x1110
[  345.432629] Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000088 by task ip/986
[  345.432629]
[  345.432629] CPU: 1 PID: 986 Comm: ip Not tainted 4.17.0-rc6+ torvalds#9
[  345.432629] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
[  345.432629] Call Trace:
[  345.432629]  dump_stack+0xc6/0x150
[  345.432629]  ? dump_stack_print_info.cold.0+0x1b/0x1b
[  345.432629]  ? kasan_report+0xb4/0x410
[  345.432629]  kasan_report.cold.4+0x8f/0x91
[  345.432629]  ? rtnl_newlink+0x400/0x1110
[  345.432629]  rtnl_newlink+0x400/0x1110
[...]

Fixes: ccf8dbc ("rtnetlink: Remove VLA usage")
Signed-off-by: Prashant Bhole <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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pbhole authored and davem330 committed Jun 1, 2018
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/core/rtnetlink.c
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Expand Up @@ -2936,7 +2936,7 @@ static int rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
}

if (m_ops) {
if (ops->slave_maxtype > RTNL_SLAVE_MAX_TYPE)
if (m_ops->slave_maxtype > RTNL_SLAVE_MAX_TYPE)
return -EINVAL;

if (m_ops->slave_maxtype &&
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