netdev - [PATCH] net/vxlan: fix potential null pointer deference

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Date:   Fri, 31 May 2019 16:34:41 +0800
From:   Young Xiao <92siuyang@...il.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net, petrm@...lanox.com, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        idosch@...lanox.com, sbrivio@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Young Xiao <92siuyang@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net/vxlan: fix potential null pointer deference

There is a possible null pointer deference bug in vxlan_fdb_info(),
which is similar to the bug which was fixed in commit 6adc5fd6a142
("net/neighbour: fix crash at dumping device-agnostic proxy entries").

Signed-off-by: Young Xiao <92siuyang@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/vxlan.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
index 5994d54..1ba5977 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static int vxlan_fdb_info(struct sk_buff *skb, struct vxlan_dev *vxlan,
 	} else
 		ndm->ndm_family	= AF_BRIDGE;
 	ndm->ndm_state = fdb->state;
-	ndm->ndm_ifindex = vxlan->dev->ifindex;
+	ndm->ndm_ifindex = vxlan->dev ? vxlan->dev->ifindex : 0;
 	ndm->ndm_flags = fdb->flags;
 	if (rdst->offloaded)
 		ndm->ndm_flags |= NTF_OFFLOADED;
-- 
2.7.4