Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2021-12-08

[PATCH] gve: fix for null pointer dereference.

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From: Ameer Hamza <hidden>
Date: 2021-12-05 18:33:46
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Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Avoid passing NULL skb to __skb_put() function call if
napi_alloc_skb() returns NULL.

Addresses-Coverity: 1494144 (Dereference NULL return value)

Signed-off-by: Ameer Hamza <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_utils.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_utils.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_utils.c
index 88ca49cbc1e2..f4befdb54ad4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_utils.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_utils.c
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ struct sk_buff *gve_rx_copy(struct net_device *dev, struct napi_struct *napi,
 		set_protocol = ctx->curr_frag_cnt == ctx->expected_frag_cnt - 1;
 	} else {
 		skb = napi_alloc_skb(napi, len);
+
+		if (unlikely(!ctx->skb_head))
+			return NULL;
 		set_protocol = true;
 	}
 	__skb_put(skb, len);
-- 
2.25.1
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