netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH] udp: Resolve NULL pointer dereference

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Date:	Wed, 11 May 2016 20:43:08 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <aduyck@...antis.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	alexander.duyck@...il.com, tom@...bertland.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] udp: Resolve NULL pointer dereference

On Wed, 2016-05-11 at 19:24 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> While testing an OpenStack configuration using VXLANs I saw the following
> call trace:

> 
> I believe the trace is pointing to the call to dev_net(dev) in
> udp4_lib_lookup_skb.  If I am not mistaken I believe it is possible for us
> to have skb_dst(skb)->dev be NULL.  So to resolve that I am adding a check
> for this case and skipping the assignment if such an event occurs.

skb_dst(skb)->dev can be NULL ???

Why only UDP ipv4 would need a fix, and not ipv6 ?

Looks the bug is somewhere else maybe ?