We should check whether the NFTA_EXPR_NAME netlink attribute is present before accessing it, otherwise a null pointer deference error will occur. Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x4f/0x90 print_report+0x3f0/0x620 kasan_report+0xcd/0x110 __asan_load2+0x7d/0xa0 nla_strcmp+0x2f/0x90 __nft_expr_type_get+0x41/0xb0 nft_expr_inner_parse+0xe3/0x200 nft_inner_init+0x1be/0x2e0 nf_tables_newrule+0x813/0x1230 nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xec3/0x1170 nfnetlink_rcv+0x1e4/0x220 netlink_unicast+0x34e/0x4b0 netlink_sendmsg+0x45c/0x7e0 __sys_sendto+0x355/0x370 __x64_sys_sendto+0x84/0xa0 do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 Fixes: 3a07327d10a0 ("netfilter: nft_inner: support for inner tunnel header matching") Signed-off-by: Xingyuan Mo <hdthky0@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index a72b6aeefb1b..f7fb15fb3e2a 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -3166,7 +3166,7 @@ int nft_expr_inner_parse(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, const struct nlattr *nla, if (err < 0) return err; - if (!tb[NFTA_EXPR_DATA]) + if (!tb[NFTA_EXPR_DATA] || !tb[NFTA_EXPR_NAME]) return -EINVAL; type = __nft_expr_type_get(ctx->family, tb[NFTA_EXPR_NAME]); -- 2.25.1