From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chao Bi Subject: [PATCH] WIFI: handle a neglected case in nl80211_new_interface() Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:00:54 +0800 Message-ID: <1385521254.23222.8.camel@bichao> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Berg , "John W. Linville" , "David S. Miller" Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org In nl80211_new_interface(), it calls rdev_add_virtual_intf() to create a new interface, however, it only checks whether returned value is err code, but doesn't check if returned value is NULL. The returned value could be NULL, for example, memory allocation failed when creating a new interface. when get a NULL returned value, nl80211_new_interface() is expected to return but it actually runs down to access the NULL pointer, this could lead to a panic. Signed-off-by: Chao Bi --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index a1eb210..27feeaf 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -2512,7 +2512,7 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) wdev = rdev_add_virtual_intf(rdev, nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME]), type, err ? NULL : &flags, ¶ms); - if (IS_ERR(wdev)) { + if (!wdev || IS_ERR(wdev)) { nlmsg_free(msg); return PTR_ERR(wdev); } -- 1.7.9.5