With payload_needs_l4csum_update_pseudohdr() unconditionally dereferencing passed 'desc' parameter and a previous check for it to be non-NULL, make sure to call the function only if input is sane. Fixes: 68de70f2b3fc6 ("netlink_linearize: fix IPv6 layer 4 checksum mangling") Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> --- src/netlink_linearize.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/netlink_linearize.c b/src/netlink_linearize.c index 498326d0087a1..cb1b7fe1748b2 100644 --- a/src/netlink_linearize.c +++ b/src/netlink_linearize.c @@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ static void netlink_gen_payload_stmt(struct netlink_linearize_ctx *ctx, nftnl_expr_set_u32(nle, NFTNL_EXPR_PAYLOAD_CSUM_OFFSET, csum_off / BITS_PER_BYTE); } - if (expr->payload.base == PROTO_BASE_NETWORK_HDR && + if (expr->payload.base == PROTO_BASE_NETWORK_HDR && desc && payload_needs_l4csum_update_pseudohdr(expr, desc)) nftnl_expr_set_u32(nle, NFTNL_EXPR_PAYLOAD_FLAGS, NFT_PAYLOAD_L4CSUM_PSEUDOHDR); -- 2.24.1