From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACC3CC5B57D for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2019 23:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6582133F for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2019 23:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726609AbfGEXTe (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:19:34 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.9]:44172 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725884AbfGEXTe (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:19:34 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:601:9f80:35cd::d71]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: davem-davemloft) by shards.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ACE9615043C44; Fri, 5 Jul 2019 16:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20190705.161933.2002038370655051093.davem@davemloft.net> To: idosch@idosch.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dsahern@gmail.com, jiri@mellanox.com, shalomt@mellanox.com, mlxsw@mellanox.com, idosch@mellanox.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ipv4_neigh_lookup() From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20190704162638.17913-1-idosch@idosch.org> References: <20190704162638.17913-1-idosch@idosch.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.8 on Emacs 26.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org From: Ido Schimmel Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 19:26:38 +0300 > From: Ido Schimmel > > Both ip_neigh_gw4() and ip_neigh_gw6() can return either a valid pointer > or an error pointer, but the code currently checks that the pointer is > not NULL. > > Fix this by checking that the pointer is not an error pointer, as this > can result in a NULL pointer dereference [1]. Specifically, I believe > that what happened is that ip_neigh_gw4() returned '-EINVAL' > (0xffffffffffffffea) to which the offset of 'refcnt' (0x70) was added, > which resulted in the address 0x000000000000005a. > > [1] ... > Fixes: 5c9f7c1dfc2e ("ipv4: Add helpers for neigh lookup for nexthop") > Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel > Reported-by: Shalom Toledo > Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Applied, thanks.