netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: vxlan: fix crash when interface is created with no group

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Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:52:31 +0200
From:	Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@...ellosystems.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: vxlan: fix crash when interface is created with
 no group

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:46 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@...ellosystems.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:14:46 +0200
>
>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:55:16AM -0600, David Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be better to:
>>>
>>> 1) make sure all of vxlan_dev is initialized before use,
>>> especially default_dst
>>> 2) change the v6 code to check for AF_INET6 too, and do
>>> nothing if not set. If not set by the admin, the family of
>>> default_dst would then be AF_UNSPEC and not match.
>>
>> The family of default dst is implicitly initailized to AF_UNSPEC because
>> if kzalloc :)
>>
>> I agree that explicit check for AF_INET6 is much better than fallthrough
>> with simple 'else' clause and I can send a patch that makes the checks
>> for IPv6 as well as default_dst initialization explicit
>>
>> However, for the particular case in vxlan_rcv, checking the packet
>> version seems to me semantically more correct than comparing default_dst
>> protocol family with AF_INET or AF_INET6.
>
> The way I read things, we would receive packets unconditionally in the
> pre-ipv6-support code.  So we have to keep doing so.
>
> Therefore we either have to check the SKB protocol or pass an explicit
> protocol as an argument to vs->rcv(...).

Well, the patch I've sent checks for ip_hdr(skb) protocol version...

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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