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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-06-11 04:13:57 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-06-11 04:13:57 -0700
commit7b34ca2ac7063f4ebf07f85fd75253ed84d5c648 (patch)
tree639e89875cd047bb461ab61348050586ceca56b2 /net/ipv4/route.c
parentinet: Use FIB table peer roots in routes. (diff)
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inet: Avoid potential NULL peer dereference.
We handle NULL in rt{,6}_set_peer but then our caller will try to pass that NULL pointer into inet_putpeer() which isn't ready for it. Fix this by moving the NULL check one level up, and then remove the now unnecessary NULL check from inetpeer_ptr_set_peer(). Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/route.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/route.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index 4c33ce3000ed..842510d50453 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -1333,11 +1333,12 @@ void rt_bind_peer(struct rtable *rt, __be32 daddr, int create)
return;
peer = inet_getpeer_v4(base, daddr, create);
-
- if (!rt_set_peer(rt, peer))
- inet_putpeer(peer);
- else
- rt->rt_peer_genid = rt_peer_genid();
+ if (peer) {
+ if (!rt_set_peer(rt, peer))
+ inet_putpeer(peer);
+ else
+ rt->rt_peer_genid = rt_peer_genid();
+ }
}
/*