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authorDoug Kehn <rdkehn@yahoo.com>2010-07-14 18:02:16 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-08-02 10:20:53 -0700
commitd7091c2bbded22430db06e5172a3b4c3ee7f3cd8 (patch)
treeaa381d74e0aa40be668e7feba66084e09f1396e0 /net
parentbc823014630b05fb2deb5cf0a15032de63c41d89 (diff)
net/core: neighbour update Oops
commit 91a72a70594e5212c97705ca6a694bd307f7a26b upstream. When configuring DMVPN (GRE + openNHRP) and a GRE remote address is configured a kernel Oops is observed. The obserseved Oops is caused by a NULL header_ops pointer (neigh->dev->header_ops) in neigh_update_hhs() when void (*update)(struct hh_cache*, const struct net_device*, const unsigned char *) = neigh->dev->header_ops->cache_update; is executed. The dev associated with the NULL header_ops is the GRE interface. This patch guards against the possibility that header_ops is NULL. This Oops was first observed in kernel version 2.6.26.8. Signed-off-by: Doug Kehn <rdkehn@yahoo.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/neighbour.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index e587e681969..e6962508448 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -945,7 +945,10 @@ static void neigh_update_hhs(struct neighbour *neigh)
{
struct hh_cache *hh;
void (*update)(struct hh_cache*, const struct net_device*, const unsigned char *)
- = neigh->dev->header_ops->cache_update;
+ = NULL;
+
+ if (neigh->dev->header_ops)
+ update = neigh->dev->header_ops->cache_update;
if (update) {
for (hh = neigh->hh; hh; hh = hh->hh_next) {