netdev - Re: [PATCH net] cls_matchall: avoid panic when receiving a packet before filter set

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Date:   Sat, 04 May 2019 00:58:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mcroce@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us,
        vladbu@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] cls_matchall: avoid panic when receiving a packet
 before filter set

From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>
Date: Thu,  2 May 2019 10:51:05 +0200

> When a matchall classifier is added, there is a small time interval in
> which tp->root is NULL. If we receive a packet in this small time slice
> a NULL pointer dereference will happen, leading to a kernel panic:
 ...
> Fix this by adding a NULL check in mall_classify().
> 
> Fixes: ed76f5edccc9 ("net: sched: protect filter_chain list with filter_chain_lock mutex")
> Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.