From: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 20d5fe2d7103f5c43ad11a3d6d259e9d61165c35 upstream. This patch fixes a nullpointer dereference if NL802154_ATTR_SEC_KEY is not set by the user. If this is the case nl802154 will return -EINVAL. Reported-by: syzbot+ce4e062c2d51977ddc50@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210221174321.14210-3-aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ieee802154/nl802154.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c +++ b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c @@ -1562,7 +1562,8 @@ static int nl802154_add_llsec_key(struct struct ieee802154_llsec_key_id id = { }; u32 commands[NL802154_CMD_FRAME_NR_IDS / 32] = { }; - if (nla_parse_nested(attrs, NL802154_KEY_ATTR_MAX, + if (!info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SEC_KEY] || + nla_parse_nested(attrs, NL802154_KEY_ATTR_MAX, info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SEC_KEY], nl802154_key_policy, info->extack)) return -EINVAL;