From 619b17452a388d6be69a7b28dc92310ea3f5aa65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:20:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tipc: fix null deref crash in compat config path
msg.dst_sk needs to be set up with a valid socket because some callbacks
later derive the netns from it.
Fixes: 263ea09084d172d ("Revert "genl: Add genlmsg_new_unicast() for unicast message allocation")
Reported-by: Jon Maloy <maloy@donjonn.com>
Bisected-by: Jon Maloy <maloy@donjonn.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
index de66d8f945ed6..d7d050f44fc13 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -1105,6 +1105,7 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_recv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
msg.req = nlmsg_data(req_nlh) + GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN;
msg.cmd = req_userhdr->cmd;
msg.net = genl_info_net(info);
+ msg.dst_sk = skb->sk;
if ((msg.cmd & 0xC000) && (!netlink_net_capable(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN))) {
msg.rep = tipc_get_err_tlv(TIPC_CFG_NOT_NET_ADMIN);
--
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