From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>,
Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: appletalk: fix NULL pointer dereference in aarp_send_ddp()
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 05:38:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260514123806.3085961-3-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)
aarp_send_ddp() calls atalk_find_dev_addr(dev) in the LocalTalk fast
path without checking for NULL. When the device has no AppleTalk
interface configured (dev->atalk_ptr == NULL), this leads to a NULL
pointer dereference at the at->s_net access.
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
RIP: 0010:aarp_send_ddp (net/appletalk/aarp.c:552 (discriminator 2))
Call Trace:
<TASK>
atalk_sendmsg (net/appletalk/ddp.c:1715)
__sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2265 (discriminator 1))
__x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2272)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
Add a NULL check consistent with the other callers of
atalk_find_dev_addr().
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
net/appletalk/aarp.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/appletalk/aarp.c b/net/appletalk/aarp.c
index e7315c01a299..30493ea3c010 100644
--- a/net/appletalk/aarp.c
+++ b/net/appletalk/aarp.c
@@ -542,6 +542,11 @@ int aarp_send_ddp(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
struct ddpehdr *ddp = (struct ddpehdr *)skb->data;
int ft = 2;
+ if (!at) {
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ return NET_XMIT_DROP;
+ }
+
/*
* Compressible ?
*
--
2.43.0
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