netdev - Re: NULL pointer dereference at __ip_route_output

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Message-ID: <20120403002200.GA21262@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 2 Apr 2012 20:22:00 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...oraproject.org
Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference at __ip_route_output_key

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:07:11PM -0400, David Miller wrote:

 > > We just had this reported. Look familiar to anyone ?
 > 
 > If you could unravel the source file and line the OOPS occurs at, I
 > can look at these kinds of reports much faster.  As it stands, when I
 > see a Fedora OOPS, it's a long process for me:

Ok, I'll try and pull these apart for you in future, as I usually
have the bits for the most recent builds around. 

 > Anyways in this case dev_out is NULL when we read it around line
 > 2798 of net/ipv4/route.c:
 > 
 > 	dev_out = FIB_RES_DEV(res);
 > 	fl4->flowi4_oif = dev_out->ifindex;
 > 
 > and we are thus OOPS'ing on the dev_out->ifindex.
 > 
 > Unfortunately I've never seen a report like this.  If the reporter can
 > reproduce, you can try to extract more information by doing something
 > like this right after the dev_out assignment:
 > 
 > 	if (!dev_out) {
 > 		pr_crit("ipv4: FIB_RES_DEV() is NULL, nh_sel=%d\n",
 > 			res.nh_sel);
 > 		rth = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 > 		goto out;
 > 	}
 > 
 > This debugging will also avoid the NULL pointer crash at least for
 > that particular invocation.

ok, I'll do a test build with this change for the user to try out.
Hopefully he can retrigger it.

thanks,

	Dave
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