This patch fixes a nullpointer dereference if NL802154_ATTR_SEC_DEVKEY is not set by the user. If this is the case nl802154 will return -EINVAL. Reported-by: syzbot+368672e0da240db53b5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ieee802154/nl802154.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c index 3f6d86d63923..e9e4652cd592 100644 --- a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c +++ b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c @@ -1916,7 +1916,8 @@ static int nl802154_del_llsec_devkey(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info struct ieee802154_llsec_device_key key; __le64 extended_addr; - if (nla_parse_nested_deprecated(attrs, NL802154_DEVKEY_ATTR_MAX, info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SEC_DEVKEY], nl802154_devkey_policy, info->extack)) + if (!info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SEC_DEVKEY] || + nla_parse_nested_deprecated(attrs, NL802154_DEVKEY_ATTR_MAX, info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SEC_DEVKEY], nl802154_devkey_policy, info->extack)) return -EINVAL; if (!attrs[NL802154_DEVKEY_ATTR_EXTENDED_ADDR]) -- 2.26.2
