linux-kernel - Re: [NET] IPv6 oops bisected

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Message-Id: <20071007.231608.104667710.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:16:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeff@...zik.org
Cc:	dlunev@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, den@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [NET] IPv6 oops bisected

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:56:07 -0400

> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions-ipv6: line 246: 1760 Killed
> 	LC_ALL=C /sbin/ip $options
> 
> 
> NULL pointer dereference at 0x000003f8
> 
> backtrace:
> :ipv6:ip6_route_add+0x1b1/0x543

'dev' can be NULL in that code branch of ip6_route_add(),
yet we're deferencing it to get dev->nd_net.

 	if ((cfg->fc_flags & RTF_REJECT) ||
 	    (dev && (dev->flags&IFF_LOOPBACK) && !(addr_type&IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))) {
 		/* hold loopback dev/idev if we haven't done so. */
-		if (dev != init_net.loopback_dev) {
+		if (dev != dev->nd_net->loopback_dev) {

I'll add the appropriate check for NULL as follows:

commit b3c1427c21f9bac4ceaa02e875f3b2c9a5592132
Author: David S. Miller <davem@...set.davemloft.net>
Date:   Sun Oct 7 23:15:56 2007 -0700

    [IPV6]: Fix OOPS introduced by 5f5dace1ce001b24fb8286e09ffd3c4d2b547e09.
    
    In ip6_add_route(), 'dev' can be NULL, so check that before
    we try to deref dev->nd_net.
    
    Based upon a crash report by Jeff Garzik.
    
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index a7db84c..7109ad6 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1188,7 +1188,7 @@ int ip6_route_add(struct fib6_config *cfg)
 	if ((cfg->fc_flags & RTF_REJECT) ||
 	    (dev && (dev->flags&IFF_LOOPBACK) && !(addr_type&IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))) {
 		/* hold loopback dev/idev if we haven't done so. */
-		if (dev != dev->nd_net->loopback_dev) {
+		if (!dev || (dev != dev->nd_net->loopback_dev)) {
 			if (dev) {
 				dev_put(dev);
 				in6_dev_put(idev);
-
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