Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: mgmt: Fix possible NULL dereference

[Andrei Emeltchenko <Andrei.Emeltchenko.news@gmail.com>]

Hi Johan,

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:23:06PM +0300, Johan Hedberg wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012, Andrei Emeltchenko wrote:
> > From: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@intel.com>
> > 
> > hdev might be dereferenced in handler->func functions.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  net/bluetooth/mgmt.c |   11 ++++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/bluetooth/mgmt.c b/net/bluetooth/mgmt.c
> > index 2a0f695..48a83c9 100644
> > --- a/net/bluetooth/mgmt.c
> > +++ b/net/bluetooth/mgmt.c
> > @@ -2801,14 +2801,15 @@ int mgmt_control(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t msglen)
> >  		goto done;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	if (hdev)
> > +	if (hdev) {
> >  		mgmt_init_hdev(sk, hdev);
> >  
> > -	cp = buf + sizeof(*hdr);
> > +		cp = buf + sizeof(*hdr);
> >  
> > -	err = handler->func(sk, hdev, cp, len);
> > -	if (err < 0)
> > -		goto done;
> > +		err = handler->func(sk, hdev, cp, len);
> > +		if (err < 0)
> > +			goto done;
> > +	}
> >  
> >  	err = msglen;
> 
> Nack.
> 
> hdev is supposed to be NULL for some of the commands/handlers
> (read_version, read_index_list, etc). With your change these mgmt
> commands couldn't be called anymore. There's also a check for this
> higher up in the mgmt_control function to ensure that hdev is not NULL
> for other handlers:

OK, though I do not like that division by command name.

> 
>         if ((hdev && opcode < MGMT_OP_READ_INFO) ||
>                         (!hdev && opcode >= MGMT_OP_READ_INFO)) {
>                 err = cmd_status(sk, index, opcode,
>                                  MGMT_STATUS_INVALID_INDEX);
>                 goto done;
>         }
> 


Best regards 
Andrei Emeltchenko