netdev - Re: [patch net] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Fix NULL pointer deref

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Date:   Mon, 25 Dec 2017 09:02:54 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, idosch@...lanox.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Fix NULL pointer deref

Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 08:57:35AM CET, jiri@...nulli.us wrote:
>From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
>
>When we remove the neighbour associated with a nexthop we should always
>refuse to write the nexthop to the adjacency table. Regardless if it is
>already present in the table or not.
>
>Otherwise, we risk dereferencing the NULL pointer that was set instead
>of the neighbour.
>
>Fixes: a7ff87acd995 ("mlxsw: spectrum_router: Implement next-hop routing")
>Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
>Reported-by: Alexander Petrovskiy <alexpe@...lanox.com>
>Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

Dave, could you please queue this up for 4.14.y together
with "mlxsw: spectrum: Relax sanity checks during enslavement".

Thanks!