netdev - Re: BUG: 4.14.11 unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in xfrm

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Date:   Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:03:55 +0200
From:   Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:     Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@...il.com>
CC:     Tobias Hommel <netdev-list@...oetigt.de>,
        Markus Berner <Markus.Berner@....ch>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: 4.14.11 unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in
 xfrm_lookup

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 10:41:37AM +0200, Kristian Evensen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Tobias Hommel <netdev-list@...oetigt.de> wrote:
> > Sorry no progress until now, I currently do not get time to have a deeper look
> > into that. We're back to 4.1.6 right now.
> 
> Thanks for letting me know. In the project I am currently involved in,
> we unfortunately don't have the option of reverting the kernel, so we
> are finding ways to live with the error. We have been looking into the
> error a bit more, and have made the following observations:
> 
> * First of all, as discussed earlier in the thread, the error is
> triggered by dst_orig being NULL.

I spent quite some time again yesterday in trying to find a
case where dst_orig can be NULL in xfrm_lookup(). I don't see
how this can happen, so I fear we need a bisection on this.