Commit 864db232 authored by Muhammad Usama Anjum's avatar Muhammad Usama Anjum Committed by David S. Miller

net: ipv6: check for validity before dereferencing cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh

nlh is being checked for validtity two times when it is dereferenced in
this function. Check for validity again when updating the flags through
nlh pointer to make the dereferencing safe.

CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Addresses-Coverity: ("NULL pointer dereference")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMuhammad Usama Anjum <musamaanjum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 2d1b50ab
......@@ -5209,9 +5209,11 @@ static int ip6_route_multipath_add(struct fib6_config *cfg,
* nexthops have been replaced by first new, the rest should
* be added to it.
*/
if (cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh) {
cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh->nlmsg_flags &= ~(NLM_F_EXCL |
NLM_F_REPLACE);
cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh->nlmsg_flags |= NLM_F_CREATE;
}
nhn++;
}
......
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