Make sure the socket for which the user is listing publication exists
before parsing the socket netlink attributes.
Prior to this patch a call without any socket caused a NULL pointer
dereference in tipc_nl_publ_dump().
Tested-and-reported-by: Baozeng Ding <splovi...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.a...@ericsson.com>
---
net/tipc/socket.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/tipc/socket.c b/net/tipc/socket.c
index 1262889..3b7a799 100644
--- a/net/tipc/socket.c
+++ b/net/tipc/socket.c
@@ -2853,6 +2853,9 @@ int tipc_nl_publ_dump(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
netlink_callback *cb)
if (err)
return err;
+ if (!attrs[TIPC_NLA_SOCK])
+ return -EINVAL;
+
err = nla_parse_nested(sock, TIPC_NLA_SOCK_MAX,
attrs[TIPC_NLA_SOCK],
tipc_nl_sock_policy);
--
2.1.4
