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authorBernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>2011-08-16 10:56:54 +0000
committerRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>2011-08-16 10:19:20 -0700
commit22cfb0bf6721bb1f865f67bc21e3c36c272faf36 (patch)
treed70baecd0e7aa0e63cafa82178a16a39587df7cb /drivers
parent322a8b034003c0d46d39af85bf24fee27b902f48 (diff)
IPoIB: Fix possible NULL dereference in ipoib_start_xmit()
Fix a bug introduced in 69cce1d14049 ("net: Abstract dst->neighbour accesses behind helpers.") where we might dereference skb_dst(skb) even if it is NULL, which causes: [ 240.944030] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040 [ 240.948007] IP: [<ffffffffa0366ce9>] ipoib_start_xmit+0x39/0x280 [ib_ipoib] [...] [ 240.948007] Call Trace: [ 240.948007] <IRQ> [ 240.948007] [<ffffffff812cd5e0>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x2a0/0x590 [ 240.948007] [<ffffffff8131f680>] ? arp_create+0x70/0x200 [ 240.948007] [<ffffffff812e8e1f>] sch_direct_xmit+0xef/0x1c0 Addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41212 Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
index 43f89ba0a90..fe89c4660d5 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
@@ -717,11 +717,13 @@ static int ipoib_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
{
struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
struct ipoib_neigh *neigh;
- struct neighbour *n;
+ struct neighbour *n = NULL;
unsigned long flags;
- n = dst_get_neighbour(skb_dst(skb));
- if (likely(skb_dst(skb) && n)) {
+ if (likely(skb_dst(skb)))
+ n = dst_get_neighbour(skb_dst(skb));
+
+ if (likely(n)) {
if (unlikely(!*to_ipoib_neigh(n))) {
ipoib_path_lookup(skb, dev);
return NETDEV_TX_OK;