[PATCH 1/2] net: ipv6: Fix a possible null-pointer dereference in ip6_xmit()

[Jia-Ju Bai]

In ip6_xmit(), there is an if statement on line 245 to check whether 
np is NULL:
    if (np)

When np is NULL, it is used on line 251:
    ip6_autoflowlabel(net, np)
        if (!np->autoflowlabel_set)

Thus, a possible null-pointer dereference may occur.

To fix this bug, np is checked before calling 
ip6_autoflowlabel(net,np).

This bug is found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by us.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1...@gmail.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 8e49fd62eea9..07db5ab6e970 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -247,8 +247,10 @@ int ip6_xmit(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, 
struct flowi6 *fl6,
        if (hlimit < 0)
                hlimit = ip6_dst_hoplimit(dst);
 
-       ip6_flow_hdr(hdr, tclass, ip6_make_flowlabel(net, skb, fl6->flowlabel,
-                               ip6_autoflowlabel(net, np), fl6));
+       if (np) {
+               ip6_flow_hdr(hdr, tclass, ip6_make_flowlabel(net, skb, 
fl6->flowlabel,
+                                       ip6_autoflowlabel(net, np), fl6));
+       }
 
        hdr->payload_len = htons(seg_len);
        hdr->nexthdr = proto;
-- 
2.17.0