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[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 141/158] bpf, libbpf, smatch: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-07-15 14:27:21
Also in: bpf, lkml, stable
Subsystem: bpf [general] (safe dynamic programs and tools), bpf [library] (libbpf), the rest · Maintainers: Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Andrii Nakryiko, Eduard Zingerman, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Linus Torvalds

From: Leo Yan <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 33bae185f74d49a0d7b1bfaafb8e959efce0f243 ]

Based on the following report from Smatch, fix the potential NULL
pointer dereference check:

  tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c:3493
  bpf_prog_load_xattr() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'attr'
  (see line 3483)

  3479 int bpf_prog_load_xattr(const struct bpf_prog_load_attr *attr,
  3480                         struct bpf_object **pobj, int *prog_fd)
  3481 {
  3482         struct bpf_object_open_attr open_attr = {
  3483                 .file           = attr->file,
  3484                 .prog_type      = attr->prog_type,
                                         ^^^^^^
  3485         };

At the head of function, it directly access 'attr' without checking
if it's NULL pointer. This patch moves the values assignment after
validating 'attr' and 'attr->file'.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <redacted>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
index bdb94939fd60..a350f97e3a1a 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -2293,10 +2293,7 @@ int bpf_prog_load(const char *file, enum bpf_prog_type type,
 int bpf_prog_load_xattr(const struct bpf_prog_load_attr *attr,
 			struct bpf_object **pobj, int *prog_fd)
 {
-	struct bpf_object_open_attr open_attr = {
-		.file		= attr->file,
-		.prog_type	= attr->prog_type,
-	};
+	struct bpf_object_open_attr open_attr = {};
 	struct bpf_program *prog, *first_prog = NULL;
 	enum bpf_attach_type expected_attach_type;
 	enum bpf_prog_type prog_type;
@@ -2309,6 +2306,9 @@ int bpf_prog_load_xattr(const struct bpf_prog_load_attr *attr,
 	if (!attr->file)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	open_attr.file = attr->file;
+	open_attr.prog_type = attr->prog_type;
+
 	obj = bpf_object__open_xattr(&open_attr);
 	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(obj))
 		return -ENOENT;
-- 
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