[PATCH] can: etas_es58x: fix null pointer dereference when handling error frames

From: Vincent Mailhol
Date: Tue Apr 13 2021 - 07:43:03 EST


During the handling of CAN bus errors, a CAN error SKB is allocated
using alloc_can_err_skb(). Even if the allocation of the SKB fails,
the function continues in order to do the stats handling.

All access to the can_frame pointer (cf) should be guarded by an if
statement:
if (cf)

However, the increment of the rx_bytes stats:
netdev->stats.rx_bytes += cf->can_dlc;
dereferences the cf pointer and was not guarded by an if condition
leading to a NULL pointer dereference if the can_err_skb() function
failed.

Replacing the cf->can_dlc by the macro CAN_ERR_DLC (which is the
length of any CAN error frames) solves this NULL pointer dereference.

Fixes: 8537257874e9 ("can: etas_es58x: add core support for ETAS ES58X CAN USB interfaces")
Reported-by: Arunachalam Santhanam <arunachalam.santhanam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Hi Marc,

I am really sorry, but I was just notified about this issue litteraly
a few minutes after you send the pull request to net-next.

I am not sure how to proceed. You might either cancel the pull request
and squash this to 8537257874e9 ("can: etas_es58x: add core support
for ETAS ES58X CAN USB interfaces") or send it as a separate patch.

Please let me know if you need me to do anything.

Yours sincerely,
Vincent Mailhol
---
drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_core.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_core.c
index 7222b3b6ca46..57e5f94468e9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_core.c
@@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ int es58x_rx_err_msg(struct net_device *netdev, enum es58x_err error,
* consistency.
*/
netdev->stats.rx_packets++;
- netdev->stats.rx_bytes += cf->can_dlc;
+ netdev->stats.rx_bytes += CAN_ERR_DLC;

if (cf) {
if (cf->data[1])
--
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