Re: [PATCH] nfc: Ensure presence of NFC_ATTR_FIRMWARE_NAME attribute in nfc_genl_fw_download()
From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Oct 20 2020 - 20:13:42 EST
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:38:58 +0800 Defang Bo wrote:
> check that the NFC_ATTR_FIRMWARE_NAME attributes are provided by the netlink client prior to accessing them.This prevents potential unhandled NULL pointer
> dereference exceptions which can be triggered by malicious user-mode programs, if they omit one or both of these attributes. Just similar to commit <a0323b979f81>("nfc: Ensure presence of required attributes in the activate_target handler").
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> Signed-off-by: Defang Bo <bodefang@xxxxxxx>
Applied, thanks.