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Commit 855a28f9 authored by Vladimir Oltean's avatar Vladimir Oltean Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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net: dsa: don't dereference NULL extack in dsa_slave_changeupper()

When a driver returns -EOPNOTSUPP in dsa_port_bridge_join() but failed
to provide a reason for it, DSA attempts to set the extack to say that
software fallback will kick in.

The problem is, when we use brctl and the legacy bridge ioctls, the
extack will be NULL, and DSA dereferences it in the process of setting
it.

Sergei Antonov proves this using the following stack trace:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
PC is at dsa_slave_changeupper+0x5c/0x158

 dsa_slave_changeupper from raw_notifier_call_chain+0x38/0x6c
 raw_notifier_call_chain from __netdev_upper_dev_link+0x198/0x3b4
 __netdev_upper_dev_link from netdev_master_upper_dev_link+0x50/0x78
 netdev_master_upper_dev_link from br_add_if+0x430/0x7f4
 br_add_if from br_ioctl_stub+0x170/0x530
 br_ioctl_stub from br_ioctl_call+0x54/0x7c
 br_ioctl_call from dev_ifsioc+0x4e0/0x6bc
 dev_ifsioc from dev_ioctl+0x2f8/0x758
 dev_ioctl from sock_ioctl+0x5f0/0x674
 sock_ioctl from sys_ioctl+0x518/0xe40
 sys_ioctl from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c

Fix the problem by only overriding the extack if non-NULL.

Fixes: 1c6e8088 ("net: dsa: allow port_bridge_join() to override extack message")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CABikg9wx7vB5eRDAYtvAm7fprJ09Ta27a4ZazC=NX5K4wn6pWA@mail.gmail.com/


Reported-by: default avatarSergei Antonov <saproj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarSergei Antonov <saproj@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220819173925.3581871-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 4b2e3a17
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