net: ethtool: fix NULL pointer dereference in pause_prepare_data()
authorVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:13:28 +0000 (13:13 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:57:41 +0000 (09:57 +0000)
In the following call path:

ethnl_default_dumpit
-> ethnl_default_dump_one
   -> ctx->ops->prepare_data
      -> pause_prepare_data

struct genl_info *info will be passed as NULL, and pause_prepare_data()
dereferences it while getting the extended ack pointer.

To avoid that, just set the extack to NULL if "info" is NULL, since the
netlink extack handling messages know how to deal with that.

The pattern "info ? info->extack : NULL" is present in quite a few other
"prepare_data" implementations, so it's clear that it's a more general
problem to be dealt with at a higher level, but the code should have at
least adhered to the current conventions to avoid the NULL dereference.

Fixes: 04692c9020b7 ("net: ethtool: netlink: retrieve stats from multiple sources (eMAC, pMAC)")
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+9d44aae2720fc40b8474@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ethtool/pause.c

index e2be9e89c9d956e1007e5117d09a9e37b1ace7c4..dcd34b9a849ff0db7035ad648bcbbef6ac97e8f0 100644 (file)
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ static int pause_prepare_data(const struct ethnl_req_info *req_base,
                              struct genl_info *info)
 {
        const struct pause_req_info *req_info = PAUSE_REQINFO(req_base);
+       struct netlink_ext_ack *extack = info ? info->extack : NULL;
        struct pause_reply_data *data = PAUSE_REPDATA(reply_base);
        enum ethtool_mac_stats_src src = req_info->src;
-       struct netlink_ext_ack *extack = info->extack;
        struct net_device *dev = reply_base->dev;
        int ret;