netdev - Re: Possible NULL dereference caused by -stable commit ef81bb40bf15f350fe865f31fa42f1082772a576

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Date:	Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:32:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	jasowang@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de, stable@...nel.org,
	mst@...hat.com, akong@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Possible NULL dereference caused by -stable commit
 ef81bb40bf15f350fe865f31fa42f1082772a576

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:09:09 +0200

> 1) Discussion on current kernel :
> 
> All we need here is not the route but inet_peer, so that inet_getid()
> can be called on it.
> 
> If no route is given to ipv6_select_ident(), at least we can try to get
> inet_peer, and release it before exiting from ipv6_select_ident()

Ok, after some auditing, there is only one call site of ipv6_select_ident()
that can happen with a NULL route and that is udp6_ufo_fragment().

ipv6_gso_segment() already walks the extension headers via
ipv6_gso_pull_exthdrs() so maybe we can calculate the true destination
address there and get that passed down somehow into the fragment ID
selection for an inetpeer lookup.
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