netdev - Re: Null pointer dereference in bonding driver, kernel 2.6.24

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:55:29 -0800
From:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
To:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Null pointer dereference in bonding driver, kernel 2.6.24 

Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com> wrote:

>In bond_main.c:
>
>int bond_create(char *name, struct bond_params *params, struct bonding **newbond)
>{
>...
>        /* Check to see if the bond already exists. */
>        list_for_each_entry_safe(bond, nxt, &bond_dev_list, bond_list)
>                if (strnicmp(bond->dev->name, name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0) {
>                        printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME
>                               ": cannot add bond %s; it already exists\n",
>
>
>If 'name' is null we get a null dereference in strnicmp()
>
>The code was added in 2.6.24.

	This is already fixed in netdev-2.6#upstream.

	-J

---
	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@...ibm.com
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html