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ieee802154: Prevent user from crashing the host 

Avoid crashing the machine by checking
info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE] presence before de-referencing it,
which was the primary intend of the blamed patch.

Reported-by: Sanan Hasanov <sanan.hasanov@Knights.ucf.edu>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fixes: a0b6106672 ("ieee802154: Convert scan error messages to extack")
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230301154450.547716-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
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Miquel Raynal 2023-03-01 16:44:50 +01:00 committed by Stefan Schmidt
parent 6c993779ea
commit 02f18662f6
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@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ static int nl802154_trigger_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
if (!nla_get_u8(info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE])) {
if (!info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE]) {
NL_SET_ERR_MSG(info->extack, "Malformed request, missing scan type");
return -EINVAL;
}