[PATCH net] ethtool: ioctl: fix potential NULL deref in ethtool_set_coalesce()

Subsystems: networking [ethtool], networking [general], the rest

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Landed in mainline as 0276af2176c7 on 2021-11-26.

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[PATCH net] ethtool: ioctl: fix potential NULL deref in ethtool_set_coalesce()

From: Julian Wiedmann <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-26 17:58:17

ethtool_set_coalesce() now uses both the .get_coalesce() and
.set_coalesce() callbacks. But the check for their availability is
buggy, so changing the coalesce settings on a device where the driver
provides only _one_ of the callbacks results in a NULL pointer
dereference instead of an -EOPNOTSUPP.

Fix the condition so that the availability of both callbacks is
ensured. This also matches the netlink code.

Note that reproducing this requires some effort - it only affects the
legacy ioctl path, and needs a specific combination of driver options:
- have .get_coalesce() and .coalesce_supported but no
 .set_coalesce(), or
- have .set_coalesce() but no .get_coalesce(). Here eg. ethtool doesn't
  cause the crash as it first attempts to call ethtool_get_coalesce()
  and bails out on error.

Fixes: f3ccfda19319 ("ethtool: extend coalesce setting uAPI with CQE mode")
Cc: Yufeng Mo <redacted>
Cc: Huazhong Tan <redacted>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <redacted>
---
 net/ethtool/ioctl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ethtool/ioctl.c b/net/ethtool/ioctl.c
index 65e9bc1058b5..20bcf86970ff 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/ioctl.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/ioctl.c
@@ -1719,7 +1719,7 @@ static noinline_for_stack int ethtool_set_coalesce(struct net_device *dev,
 	struct ethtool_coalesce coalesce;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (!dev->ethtool_ops->set_coalesce && !dev->ethtool_ops->get_coalesce)
+	if (!dev->ethtool_ops->set_coalesce || !dev->ethtool_ops->get_coalesce)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	ret = dev->ethtool_ops->get_coalesce(dev, &coalesce, &kernel_coalesce,
-- 
2.32.0

Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: ioctl: fix potential NULL deref in ethtool_set_coalesce()

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
Date: 2021-11-26 19:47:49

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
by Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref]:

On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:55:43 +0100 you wrote:
ethtool_set_coalesce() now uses both the .get_coalesce() and
.set_coalesce() callbacks. But the check for their availability is
buggy, so changing the coalesce settings on a device where the driver
provides only _one_ of the callbacks results in a NULL pointer
dereference instead of an -EOPNOTSUPP.

Fix the condition so that the availability of both callbacks is
ensured. This also matches the netlink code.

[...]
Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] ethtool: ioctl: fix potential NULL deref in ethtool_set_coalesce()
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/0276af2176c7

You are awesome, thank you!
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