[PATCH] net: bridge: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Mon Jun 05 2017 - 17:30:37 EST


Add NULL check before dereferencing pointer _p_ inside br_afspec().

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1401872
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index 1e63ec4..ad85a9c 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ int br_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, u16 flags)
goto out;
}

- if (afspec) {
+ if (p && afspec) {
err = br_afspec((struct net_bridge *)netdev_priv(dev), p,
afspec, RTM_SETLINK);
}
--
2.5.0