From: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Since we cannot make sure that the 'hook_mask' will always be none zero here. If it equals to zero, the num_hooks will be zero too, and then kmalloc() will return ZERO_SIZE_PTR, which is (void *)16. Then the following error check will fails: ops = kmalloc(sizeof(*ops) * num_hooks, GFP_KERNEL); if (ops == NULL) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); So this patch will fix this with just doing the zero check before kmalloc() is called. Maybe the case above will never happen here, but in theory. Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c index c69c892..8aff34e 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -1460,6 +1460,9 @@ xt_hook_ops_alloc(const struct xt_table *table, nf_hookfn *fn) uint8_t hooknum; struct nf_hook_ops *ops; + if (!num_hooks) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + ops = kmalloc(sizeof(*ops) * num_hooks, GFP_KERNEL); if (ops == NULL) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html