From 6f19893b644a9454d85e593b5e90914e7a72b7dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kangjie Lu Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 23:20:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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);