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[12/13] xfrm: policy: fix null dereference

Message ID 20240910065507.2436394-13-steffen.klassert@secunet.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 6a13f5afd39d17320316dbb8dd533fe7c6a613e6
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series [01/13] xfrm: Remove documentation WARN_ON to limit return values for offloaded SA | expand

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netdev/ynl success Generated files up to date; no warnings/errors; no diff in generated;
netdev/fixes_present success Fixes tag not required for -next series
netdev/header_inline success No static functions without inline keyword in header files
netdev/build_32bit success Errors and warnings before: 16 this patch: 16
netdev/build_tools success No tools touched, skip
netdev/cc_maintainers warning 2 maintainers not CCed: pabeni@redhat.com edumazet@google.com
netdev/build_clang success Errors and warnings before: 19 this patch: 19
netdev/verify_signedoff success Signed-off-by tag matches author and committer
netdev/deprecated_api success None detected
netdev/check_selftest success No net selftest shell script
netdev/verify_fixes fail Problems with Fixes tag: 1
netdev/build_allmodconfig_warn success Errors and warnings before: 25 this patch: 25
netdev/checkpatch warning WARNING: Unknown commit id '563d5ca93e88', maybe rebased or not pulled?
netdev/build_clang_rust success No Rust files in patch. Skipping build
netdev/kdoc success Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0
netdev/source_inline success Was 0 now: 0

Commit Message

Steffen Klassert Sept. 10, 2024, 6:55 a.m. UTC 
From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

Julian Wiedmann says:
> +     if (!xfrm_pol_hold_rcu(ret))

Coverity spotted that ^^^ needs a s/ret/pol fix-up:

> CID 1599386:  Null pointer dereferences  (FORWARD_NULL)
> Passing null pointer "ret" to "xfrm_pol_hold_rcu", which dereferences it.

Ditch the bogus 'ret' variable.

Fixes: 563d5ca93e88 ("xfrm: switch migrate to xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype")
Reported-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwiedmann.dev@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/06dc2499-c095-4bd4-aee3-a1d0e3ec87c4@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
index 6336baa8a93c..31c14457fdaf 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
@@ -4429,7 +4429,7 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xfrm_audit_policy_delete);
 static struct xfrm_policy *xfrm_migrate_policy_find(const struct xfrm_selector *sel,
 						    u8 dir, u8 type, struct net *net, u32 if_id)
 {
-	struct xfrm_policy *pol, *ret = NULL;
+	struct xfrm_policy *pol;
 	struct flowi fl;
 
 	memset(&fl, 0, sizeof(fl));
@@ -4465,7 +4465,7 @@  static struct xfrm_policy *xfrm_migrate_policy_find(const struct xfrm_selector *
 	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(pol))
 		goto out_unlock;
 
-	if (!xfrm_pol_hold_rcu(ret))
+	if (!xfrm_pol_hold_rcu(pol))
 		pol = NULL;
 out_unlock:
 	rcu_read_unlock();