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> --- Changes in V2: - Using the nf.git tree instead. 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 582c9cf..e117fd0 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -1221,6 +1221,9 @@ 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); -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html