linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.11 221/233] fib_frontend: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

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Message-Id: <1391773652-25214-222-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Date:	Fri,  7 Feb 2014 11:47:20 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.11 221/233] fib_frontend: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

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

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

commit a0065f266a9b5d51575535a25c15ccbeed9a9966 upstream.

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: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
index b3f627a..f7f8cff 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
@@ -1049,6 +1049,8 @@ static int fib_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, vo
 	}
 
 	in_dev = __in_dev_get_rtnl(dev);
+	if (!in_dev)
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
 	switch (event) {
 	case NETDEV_UP:
-- 
1.8.3.2

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