Commit 3e2edf85 authored by Muhammad Usama Anjum's avatar Muhammad Usama Anjum Committed by Yang Yingliang
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net: ipv6: check for validity before dereferencing cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh



stable inclusion
from linux-4.19.187
commit 426853f87e34c9945a655e8997d2f551b12ceb76

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commit 864db232 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
parent 5a77a323
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