[PATCH] [net/ipv6] ip6_output: Add ipv6_pinfo null check

From: Gaurav Singh
Date: Mon Jul 27 2020 - 22:14:00 EST


Add return to fix build issue. Haven't reproduced this issue at
my end.

My hypothesis is this: In function: ip6_xmit(), we have
const struct ipv6_pinfo *np = inet6_sk(sk); which returns NULL.

Further down the function, there's a check:
if (np) hlimit = hp->htop_limit

Further, we have a call
ip6_flow_hdr(hdr, tclass, ip6_make_flowlabel(net, skb, fl6->flowlabel,
ip6_autoflowlabel(net, np), fl6)); .

Hence np = NULL gets passed in
the function ip6_autoflowlabel() which accesses np-> without check which
may cause a segment violation.

Signed-off-by: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 8a8c2d0cfcc8..94a07c9bd925 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -181,10 +181,10 @@ int ip6_output(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)

bool ip6_autoflowlabel(struct net *net, const struct ipv6_pinfo *np)
{
- if (!np->autoflowlabel_set)
- return ip6_default_np_autolabel(net);
- else
+ if (np && np->autoflowlabel_set)
return np->autoflowlabel;
+ else
+ return ip6_default_np_autolabel(net);
}

/*
--
2.17.1