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From: Thaison Phan <thaisonphan@google.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
	 "David S . Miller " <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
	"Fengyuan Gong" <gfengyuan@google.com>,
	"Stan Iliev" <stani@google.com>,
	"Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen" <ast@fiberby.net>,
	"Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>,
	"Thaison Phan" <thaisonphan@google.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next 2/2] tools: ynl: check alloc fails in generated code
Date: Mon,  3 Aug 2026 20:16:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260803201652.2752685-3-thaisonphan@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260803201652.2752685-1-thaisonphan@google.com>

Generated YNL code does not check the return value of malloc() and calloc()
before passing the resulting pointer to memcpy(). This could lead to a NULL
pointer dereference on memory allocation failure.

Updated the C code generator to check for allocation failures and to return
an error code when applicable, or to return with no error code for a user
to check for a NULL in the field that allocation was attempted for.

Signed-off-by: Thaison Phan <thaisonphan@google.com>
---
 tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py
index 2fd68c738075..a323acdc42ba 100755
--- a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py
+++ b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py
@@ -526,16 +526,20 @@ class TypeString(Type):
 
     def _attr_get(self, ri, var):
         len_mem = var + '->_len.' + self.c_name
-        return [f"{len_mem} = len;",
-                f"{var}->{self.c_name} = malloc(len + 1);",
+        return [f"{var}->{self.c_name} = malloc(len + 1);",
+                f"if (!{var}->{self.c_name})",
+                "return YNL_PARSE_CB_ERROR;",
+                f"{len_mem} = len;",
                 f"memcpy({var}->{self.c_name}, ynl_attr_get_str(attr), len);",
                 f"{var}->{self.c_name}[len] = 0;"], \
                ['len = strnlen(ynl_attr_get_str(attr), ynl_attr_data_len(attr));'], \
                ['unsigned int len;']
 
     def _setter_lines(self, ri, member, presence):
-        return [f"{presence} = strlen({self.c_name});",
-                f"{member} = malloc({presence} + 1);",
+        return [f"{member} = malloc(strlen({self.c_name}) + 1);",
+                f"if (!{member})",
+                "return;",
+                f"{presence} = strlen({self.c_name});",
                 f'memcpy({member}, {self.c_name}, {presence});',
                 f'{member}[{presence}] = 0;']
 
@@ -582,15 +586,19 @@ class TypeBinary(Type):
 
     def _attr_get(self, ri, var):
         len_mem = var + '->_len.' + self.c_name
-        return [f"{len_mem} = len;",
-                f"{var}->{self.c_name} = malloc(len);",
+        return [f"{var}->{self.c_name} = malloc(len);",
+                f"if (!{var}->{self.c_name})",
+                "return YNL_PARSE_CB_ERROR;",
+                f"{len_mem} = len;",
                 f"memcpy({var}->{self.c_name}, ynl_attr_data(attr), len);"], \
                ['len = ynl_attr_data_len(attr);'], \
                ['unsigned int len;']
 
     def _setter_lines(self, ri, member, presence):
-        return [f"{presence} = len;",
-                f"{member} = malloc({presence});",
+        return [f"{member} = malloc(len);",
+                f"if (!{member})",
+                "return;",
+                f"{presence} = len;",
                 f'memcpy({member}, {self.c_name}, {presence});']
 
 
@@ -601,11 +609,13 @@ class TypeBinaryStruct(TypeBinary):
     def _attr_get(self, ri, var):
         struct_sz = 'sizeof(struct ' + c_lower(self.get("struct")) + ')'
         len_mem = var + '->_' + self.presence_type() + '.' + self.c_name
-        return [f"{len_mem} = len;",
-                f"if (len < {struct_sz})",
+        return [f"if (len < {struct_sz})",
                 f"{var}->{self.c_name} = calloc(1, {struct_sz});",
                 "else",
                 f"{var}->{self.c_name} = malloc(len);",
+                f"if (!{var}->{self.c_name})",
+                "return YNL_PARSE_CB_ERROR;",
+                f"{len_mem} = len;",
                 f"memcpy({var}->{self.c_name}, ynl_attr_data(attr), len);"], \
                ['len = ynl_attr_data_len(attr);'], \
                ['unsigned int len;']
@@ -631,18 +641,21 @@ class TypeBinaryScalarArray(TypeBinary):
 
     def _attr_get(self, ri, var):
         len_mem = var + '->_count.' + self.c_name
-        return [f"{len_mem} = len / sizeof(__{self.get('sub-type')});",
-                f"len = {len_mem} * sizeof(__{self.get('sub-type')});",
+        return [f"len = (len / sizeof(__{self.get('sub-type')})) * sizeof(__{self.get('sub-type')});",
                 f"{var}->{self.c_name} = malloc(len);",
+                f"if (!{var}->{self.c_name})",
+                "return YNL_PARSE_CB_ERROR;",
+                f"{len_mem} = len / sizeof(__{self.get('sub-type')});",
                 f"memcpy({var}->{self.c_name}, ynl_attr_data(attr), len);"], \
                ['len = ynl_attr_data_len(attr);'], \
                ['unsigned int len;']
 
     def _setter_lines(self, ri, member, presence):
-        return [f"{presence} = count;",
-                f"count *= sizeof(__{self.get('sub-type')});",
-                f"{member} = malloc(count);",
-                f'memcpy({member}, {self.c_name}, count);']
+        return [f"{member} = malloc(count * sizeof(__{self.get('sub-type')}));",
+                f"if (!{member})",
+                "return;",
+                f"{presence} = count;",
+                f'memcpy({member}, {self.c_name}, count * sizeof(__{self.get("sub-type")}));']
 
 
 class TypeBitfield32(Type):
@@ -2227,6 +2240,8 @@ def _multi_parse(ri, struct, init_lines, local_vars):
 
         ri.cw.block_start(line=f"if (n_{aspec.c_name})")
         ri.cw.p(f"dst->{aspec.c_name} = calloc(n_{aspec.c_name}, sizeof(*dst->{aspec.c_name}));")
+        ri.cw.p(f"if (!dst->{aspec.c_name})")
+        ri.cw.p("return YNL_PARSE_CB_ERROR;")
         ri.cw.p(f"dst->_count.{aspec.c_name} = n_{aspec.c_name};")
         ri.cw.p('i = 0;')
         if 'nested-attributes' in aspec:
@@ -2252,6 +2267,8 @@ def _multi_parse(ri, struct, init_lines, local_vars):
         aspec = struct[arg]
         ri.cw.block_start(line=f"if (n_{aspec.c_name})")
         ri.cw.p(f"dst->{aspec.c_name} = calloc(n_{aspec.c_name}, sizeof(*dst->{aspec.c_name}));")
+        ri.cw.p(f"if (!dst->{aspec.c_name})")
+        ri.cw.p("return YNL_PARSE_CB_ERROR;")
         ri.cw.p(f"dst->_count.{aspec.c_name} = n_{aspec.c_name};")
         ri.cw.p('i = 0;')
         if 'nested-attributes' in aspec:
@@ -2275,6 +2292,8 @@ def _multi_parse(ri, struct, init_lines, local_vars):
             ri.cw.nl()
             ri.cw.p('len = strnlen(ynl_attr_get_str(attr), ynl_attr_data_len(attr));')
             ri.cw.p(f'dst->{aspec.c_name}[i] = malloc(sizeof(struct ynl_string) + len + 1);')
+            ri.cw.p(f"if (!dst->{aspec.c_name}[i])")
+            ri.cw.p("return YNL_PARSE_CB_ERROR;")
             ri.cw.p(f"dst->{aspec.c_name}[i]->len = len;")
             ri.cw.p(f"memcpy(dst->{aspec.c_name}[i]->str, ynl_attr_get_str(attr), len);")
             ri.cw.p(f"dst->{aspec.c_name}[i]->str[len] = 0;")
@@ -2434,6 +2453,8 @@ def print_req(ri):
 
     if 'reply' in ri.op[ri.op_mode]:
         ri.cw.p('rsp = calloc(1, sizeof(*rsp));')
+        ri.cw.p('if (!rsp)')
+        ri.cw.p(f'return {ret_err};')
         ri.cw.p('yrs.yarg.data = rsp;')
         ri.cw.p(f"yrs.cb = {op_prefix(ri, 'reply')}_parse;")
         if ri.op.value is not None:
-- 
2.55.0.571.g244d577d93-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-03 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-03 20:16 [PATCH net-next 0/2] tools: ynl: update NULL pointer handling in generated code Thaison Phan
2026-08-03 20:16 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] tools: ynl: check for null ptr on dump free Thaison Phan
2026-08-04 21:25   ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-08-03 20:16 ` Thaison Phan [this message]
2026-08-04 21:33   ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] tools: ynl: check alloc fails in generated code Jakub Kicinski

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