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* re: netfilter: nft_ct: add ct expectations support
@ 2019-06-18 13:57 Colin Ian King
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From: Colin Ian King @ 2019-06-18 13:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stéphane Veyret, Pablo Neira Ayuso, Jozsef Kadlecsik,
	Florian Westphal, David S. Miller, netfilter-devel, coreteam,
	netdev
  Cc: linux-kernel

Hi,

Static analysis with Coverity on linux-next has found a potential issue
with the following commit:

commit 857b46027d6f91150797295752581b7155b9d0e1
Author: Stéphane Veyret <sveyret@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat May 25 15:30:58 2019 +0200

    netfilter: nft_ct: add ct expectations support


Specifically in function nft_ct_expect_obj_eval)() in the following code:

+       help = nfct_help(ct);
+       if (!help)
+               help = nf_ct_helper_ext_add(ct, GFP_ATOMIC);
+
+       if (help->expecting[NF_CT_EXPECT_CLASS_DEFAULT] >= priv->size) {
+               regs->verdict.code = NFT_BREAK;
+               return;
+       }


The call to nf_ct_helper_ext_add can potentially return NULL, however,
this is not being checked and pointer 'help' is being dereferenced even
though it potentially can be null.

Colin


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