linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.13 115/140] fib_frontend: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

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Date:	Tue,  4 Feb 2014 13:11:42 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13 115/140] fib_frontend: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

3.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>

[ Upstream commit a0065f266a9b5d51575535a25c15ccbeed9a9966 ]

The two commits 0115e8e30d (net: remove delay at device dismantle) and
748e2d9396a (net: reinstate rtnl in call_netdevice_notifiers()) silently
removed a NULL pointer check for in_dev since Linux 3.7.

This patch re-introduces this check as it causes crashing the kernel when
setting small mtu values on non-ip capable netdevices.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
@@ -1047,6 +1047,8 @@ static int fib_netdev_event(struct notif
 	}
 
 	in_dev = __in_dev_get_rtnl(dev);
+	if (!in_dev)
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
 	switch (event) {
 	case NETDEV_UP:


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