If BTF is corrupted DATASEC's variable type ID might be incorrect. Prevent this easy to detect situation with extra NULL check. Reported by oss-fuzz project. Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 71f5a009010a..f836a1936597 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -2752,13 +2752,12 @@ static int btf_fixup_datasec(struct bpf_object *obj, struct btf *btf, for (i = 0, vsi = btf_var_secinfos(t); i < vars; i++, vsi++) { t_var = btf__type_by_id(btf, vsi->type); - var = btf_var(t_var); - - if (!btf_is_var(t_var)) { + if (!t_var || !btf_is_var(t_var)) { pr_debug("Non-VAR type seen in section %s\n", name); return -EINVAL; } + var = btf_var(t_var); if (var->linkage == BTF_VAR_STATIC) continue; -- 2.30.2