From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: [PATCH] xfrm: NULL dereference on allocation failure Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:35:37 +0300 Message-ID: <20170614103537.GJ29394@elgon.mountain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Herbert Xu , "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org To: Steffen Klassert , Trent Jaeger Return-path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:36879 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750756AbdFNKf7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2017 06:35:59 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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;