On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 02:12:15PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
>
> It is possible that nlmsg_put can return a null pointer, currently
> this will lead to a null pointer dereference when passing a null
> nlh pointer to nlmsg_end. Fix this by adding a null pointer check.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return value")
> Fixes: cb7e0e130503 ("RDMA/core: Add interface to read device namespace
> sharing mode")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
> index 69188cbbd99b..4dc43b6c5a28 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
> @@ -1367,6 +1367,10 @@ static int nldev_sys_get_doit(struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
> RDMA_NL_GET_TYPE(RDMA_NL_NLDEV,
> RDMA_NLDEV_CMD_SYS_GET),
> 0, 0);
It is impossible situation due to "0" in payload field above.
> + if (!nlh) {
> + nlmsg_free(msg);
> + return -EMSGSIZE;
> + }
>
> err = nla_put_u8(msg, RDMA_NLDEV_SYS_ATTR_NETNS_MODE,
> (u8)ib_devices_shared_netns);
> --
> 2.20.1
>
