From: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit dac7f50a45216d652887fb92d6cd3b7ca7f006ea ] static analyzer detect null pointer dereference case for 'type' function __nft_obj_type_get() can return NULL value which require to handle if type is NULL pointer return -ENOENT. This is a theoretical issue, since an existing object has a type, but better add this failsafe check. Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 8c09e4d12ac1e..fc8256b00b320 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -6999,6 +6999,9 @@ static int nf_tables_newobj(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nfnl_info *info, return -EOPNOTSUPP; type = __nft_obj_type_get(objtype); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!type)) + return -ENOENT; + nft_ctx_init(&ctx, net, skb, info->nlh, family, table, NULL, nla); return nf_tables_updobj(&ctx, type, nla[NFTA_OBJ_DATA], obj); -- 2.39.0
