Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] ethtool/plca: fix potential NULL pointer access

[Piergiorgio Beruto <piergiorgio.beruto@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 02:34:26AM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 12:57:19AM +0100, Piergiorgio Beruto wrote:
> > Fix problem found by syzbot dereferencing a device pointer.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Piergiorgio Beruto <piergiorgio.beruto@gmail.com>
> > Reported-by: syzbot+8cf35743af243e5f417e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > Fixes: 8580e16c28f3 ("net/ethtool: add netlink interface for the PLCA RS")
> > ---
> >  net/ethtool/plca.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/ethtool/plca.c b/net/ethtool/plca.c
> > index be7404dc9ef2..bc3d31f99998 100644
> > --- a/net/ethtool/plca.c
> > +++ b/net/ethtool/plca.c
> > @@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ int ethnl_set_plca_cfg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
> >  		return ret;
> >  
> >  	dev = req_info.dev;
> > +	if(!dev)
> > +		return -ENODEV;
> 
> Shouldn't be necessary. The fact that you pass "true" to the
> "require_dev" argument of ethnl_parse_header_dev_get() takes care
> specifically of that.
> 
> Looking at that syzbot report, it looks like you solved it with commit
> 28dbf774bc87 ("plca.c: fix obvious mistake in checking retval"). Or was
> that not the only issue?
Oh, I believe you are correct.
I probably confused which version the bug was reported against.

Please, ignore this patch...
Thanks!

Piergiorgio

> 
> >  
> >  	rtnl_lock();
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.37.4
> >