netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tipc: check nl sock before parsing nested attributes

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Message-Id: <20160516.215921.884864359703583643.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 16 May 2016 21:59:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	richard.alpe@...csson.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sploving1@...il.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tipc: check nl sock before parsing nested
 attributes

From: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 11:14:54 +0200

> Make sure the socket for which the user is listing publication exists
> before parsing the socket netlink attributes.
> 
> Prior to this patch a call without any socket caused a NULL pointer
> dereference in tipc_nl_publ_dump().
> 
> Tested-and-reported-by: Baozeng Ding <sploving1@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.