On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 01:11:06AM +0300, Natalia Petrova wrote:
> The result of nlmsg_find_attr() 'br_spec' is dereferenced in
> nla_for_each_nested(), but it can take null value in nla_find() function,
> which will result in an error.
>
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
>
> Fixes: 51616018dd1b ("i40e: Add support for getlink, setlink ndo ops")
> Signed-off-by: Natalia Petrova <n.petrova@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: The remark about the error code by Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> was taken into account; return value -ENOENT was changed to -EINVAL.
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
<formletter>
This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.
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