From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 051c7b39be4a91f6b7d8c4548444e4b850f1f56c ] In dequeue_func(), there is an if statement on line 74 to check whether skb is NULL: if (skb) When skb is NULL, it is used on line 77: prefetch(&skb->end); Thus, a possible null-pointer dereference may occur. To fix this bug, skb->end is used when skb is not NULL. This bug is found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by us. Fixes: 76e3cc126bb2 ("codel: Controlled Delay AQM") Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sched/sch_codel.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/sched/sch_codel.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_codel.c @@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *dequeue(struct co { struct sk_buff *skb = __skb_dequeue(&sch->q); - prefetch(&skb->end); /* we'll need skb_shinfo() */ + if (skb) + prefetch(&skb->end); /* we'll need skb_shinfo() */ return skb; }