netdev - Re: NULL pointer dereference in rt6_get

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Message-ID: <20151013181443.GB68583@kafai-mba.local>
Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:14:43 -0700
From:	Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
To:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in rt6_get_cookie()

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 03:24:37PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> The conditional at the start of the function evaluates true, since
> 'rt->rt6i_flags & RTF_PCPU' is non-zero.
Hi Phil, can you try the following patch and capture the dmesg output
to confirm the value of rt->rt6i_flags and the rt->dst.flags.

Thanks,
Martin

--- a/include/net/ip6_fib.h
+++ b/include/net/ip6_fib.h
@@ -167,8 +167,15 @@ static inline void rt6_update_expires(struct rt6_info *rt0, int timeout)

 static inline u32 rt6_get_cookie(const struct rt6_info *rt)
 {
-	if (rt->rt6i_flags & RTF_PCPU || unlikely(rt->dst.flags & DST_NOCACHE))
+	if (rt->rt6i_flags & RTF_PCPU || unlikely(rt->dst.flags & DST_NOCACHE)) {
 		rt = (struct rt6_info *)(rt->dst.from);
+		if (!rt)
+			pr_err("rt6i_dst:%pI6c/%d rt6i_gateway:%pI6c "
+			       "rt6i_flags:%08X dst.flags:%08X\n",
+			       &rt->rt6i_dst.addr, rt->rt6i_dst.plen,
+			       &rt->rt6i_gateway, rt->rt6i_flags,
+			       rt->dst.flags);
+	}

 	return rt->rt6i_node ? rt->rt6i_node->fn_sernum : 0;
 }
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