From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:35:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] xfrm: NULL dereference on allocation failure Message-Id: <20170614103537.GJ29394@elgon.mountain> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Steffen Klassert , Trent Jaeger Cc: Herbert Xu , "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org The default error code in pfkey_msg2xfrm_state() is -ENOBUFS. We added a new call to security_xfrm_state_alloc() which sets "err" to zero so there several places where we can return ERR_PTR(0) if kmalloc() fails. The caller is expecting error pointers so it leads to a NULL dereference. Fixes: df71837d5024 ("[LSM-IPSec]: Security association restriction.") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/net/key/af_key.c b/net/key/af_key.c index 86051b5879f2..02e6865421e8 100644 --- a/net/key/af_key.c +++ b/net/key/af_key.c @@ -1157,6 +1157,7 @@ static struct xfrm_state * pfkey_msg2xfrm_state(struct net *net, goto out; } + err = -ENOBUFS; key = ext_hdrs[SADB_EXT_KEY_AUTH - 1]; if (sa->sadb_sa_auth) { int keysize = 0;