From 02f18662f6c671382345fcb696e808d78f4c194a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miquel Raynal Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 16:44:50 +0100 Subject: ieee802154: Prevent user from crashing the host Avoid crashing the machine by checking info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE] presence before de-referencing it, which was the primary intend of the blamed patch. Reported-by: Sanan Hasanov Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Fixes: a0b6106672b5 ("ieee802154: Convert scan error messages to extack") Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230301154450.547716-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt --- net/ieee802154/nl802154.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ieee802154/nl802154.c') diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c index 2215f576ee37..d8f4379d4fa6 100644 --- a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c +++ b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c @@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ static int nl802154_trigger_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) return -EOPNOTSUPP; } - if (!nla_get_u8(info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE])) { + if (!info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE]) { NL_SET_ERR_MSG(info->extack, "Malformed request, missing scan type"); return -EINVAL; } -- cgit