Patch "nfc: Ensure presence of required attributes in the activate_target handler" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

nfc: Ensure presence of required attributes in the activate_target handler

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
nfc-ensure-presence-of-required-attributes-in-the-activate_target-handler.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Mateusz Jurczyk <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:42:26 +0200
Subject: nfc: Ensure presence of required attributes in the activate_target handler

From: Mateusz Jurczyk <[email protected]>

commit a0323b979f81ad2deb2c8836eab506534891876a upstream.

Check that the NFC_ATTR_TARGET_INDEX and NFC_ATTR_PROTOCOLS attributes (in addition to NFC_ATTR_DEVICE_INDEX) 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.

---
 net/nfc/netlink.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -899,7 +899,9 @@ static int nfc_genl_llc_get_params(struc
 	struct sk_buff *msg = NULL;
 	u32 idx;
 
-	if (!info->attrs[NFC_ATTR_DEVICE_INDEX])
+	if (!info->attrs[NFC_ATTR_DEVICE_INDEX] ||
+	    !info->attrs[NFC_ATTR_TARGET_INDEX] ||
+	    !info->attrs[NFC_ATTR_PROTOCOLS])
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	idx = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NFC_ATTR_DEVICE_INDEX]);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.18/nfc-add-sockaddr-length-checks-before-accessing-sa_family-in-bind-handlers.patch queue-3.18/nfc-ensure-presence-of-required-attributes-in-the-activate_target-handler.patch queue-3.18/nfc-fix-the-sockaddr-length-sanitization-in-llcp_sock_connect.patch