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authorEd Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>2026-05-22 00:50:00 +0000
committerEd Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>2026-05-22 14:21:11 +0000
commit1a4ad649cb135501f0bee56a4214e8c904ca402e (patch)
treedc49d70b75dc564e0a6f3db26ecf2bba3f7efcb6
parent0b2df683672e3b5792aa552a3700da86617f9d90 (diff)
netlink: Avoid undefined behaviour
Even though it is not dereferenced, it is UB to take the address of an out of bounds array element. Reviewed by: pouria, bz, des, adrian Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57158
-rw-r--r--sys/netlink/netlink_generic.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys/netlink/netlink_generic.c b/sys/netlink/netlink_generic.c
index fb74860e42b3..c2f82eed5656 100644
--- a/sys/netlink/netlink_generic.c
+++ b/sys/netlink/netlink_generic.c
@@ -127,13 +127,13 @@ genl_handle_message(struct nlmsghdr *hdr, struct nl_pstate *npt)
}
family_id = hdr->nlmsg_type - GENL_MIN_ID;
- gf = &families[family_id];
if (__predict_false(family_id >= MAX_FAMILIES ||
- gf->family_name == NULL)) {
+ families[family_id].family_name == NULL)) {
NLP_LOG(LOG_DEBUG, nlp, "invalid message type: %d",
hdr->nlmsg_type);
return (ENOTSUP);
}
+ gf = &families[family_id];
struct genlmsghdr *ghdr = (struct genlmsghdr *)(hdr + 1);