The nla_nest_start_noflag() function may fail and return NULL; the return value needs to be checked. Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Fixes: d54725cd11a5 ("netfilter: nf_tables: support for multiple devices per netdev hook") Signed-off-by: Gavrilov Ilia <Ilia.Gavrilov@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 8c09e4d12ac1..b49f7f877ba6 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -1588,6 +1588,8 @@ static int nft_dump_basechain_hook(struct sk_buff *skb, int family, if (nft_base_chain_netdev(family, ops->hooknum)) { nest_devs = nla_nest_start_noflag(skb, NFTA_HOOK_DEVS); + if (!nest_devs) + goto nla_put_failure; list_for_each_entry(hook, &basechain->hook_list, list) { if (!first) first = hook; -- 2.30.2