netdev - Re: [Patch] rose_route_frame() NULL pointer dereference kernel panic

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 03 Mar 2016 17:02:53 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	f6bvp@...e.fr
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] rose_route_frame() NULL pointer dereference kernel
 panic

From: f6bvp <f6bvp@...e.fr>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 21:37:14 +0100

> I built the following patch in order to obtain the same result without
> NULL pointer.

But it will cause every packet to be dropped because rose_route_frame() won't
find a matching neighbour, and therefore return 0 to rose_xmit().