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authorKangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>2019-03-14 23:20:16 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-03-16 11:35:58 -0700
commit6f19893b644a9454d85e593b5e90914e7a72b7dd (patch)
tree5a929c79029a9bc1158827051b8756bbcd0c7f5c /net
parent4477138fa0ae4e1b699786ef0600863ea6e6c61c (diff)
downloadlinux-6f19893b644a9454d85e593b5e90914e7a72b7dd.tar.bz2
net: openvswitch: fix a NULL pointer dereference
upcall is dereferenced even when genlmsg_put fails. The fix goto out to avoid the NULL pointer dereference in this case. Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/openvswitch/datapath.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index 6679e96ab1dc..45d1469308b0 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -448,6 +448,10 @@ static int queue_userspace_packet(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb,
upcall = genlmsg_put(user_skb, 0, 0, &dp_packet_genl_family,
0, upcall_info->cmd);
+ if (!upcall) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
upcall->dp_ifindex = dp_ifindex;
err = ovs_nla_put_key(key, key, OVS_PACKET_ATTR_KEY, false, user_skb);