ieee802154: Prevent user from crashing the host

Avoid crashing the machine by checking
info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE] presence before de-referencing it,
which was the primary intend of the blamed patch.

Reported-by: Sanan Hasanov <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Fixes: a0b6106 ("ieee802154: Convert scan error messages to extack")
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <[email protected]>

Author: miquelraynal

net/ieee802154/nl802154.c

@@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ static int nl802154_trigger_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
 
-	if (!nla_get_u8(info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE])) {
+	if (!info->attrs[NL802154_ATTR_SCAN_TYPE]) {
 		NL_SET_ERR_MSG(info->extack, "Malformed request, missing scan type");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}