net: ethtool: netlink: Allow NULL nlattrs when getting a phy_device

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ethtool: netlink: Allow NULL nlattrs when getting a phy_device

ethnl_req_get_phydev() is used to lookup a phy_device, in the case an

ethtool netlink command targets a specific phydev within a netdev's

topology.

It takes as a parameter a const struct nlattr *header that's used for

error handling :

if (!phydev) {

NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack, header,

"no phy matching phyindex");

return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);

}

In the notify path after a ->set operation however, there's no request

attributes available.

The typical callsite for the above function looks like:

phydev = ethnl_req_get_phydev(req_base, tb[ETHTOOL_A_XXX_HEADER],

info->extack);

So, when tb is NULL (such as in the ethnl notify path), we have a nice

crash.

It turns out that there's only the PLCA command that is in that case, as

the other phydev-specific commands don't have a notification.

This commit fixes the crash by passing the cmd index and the nlattr

array separately, allowing NULL-checking it directly inside the helper.