Re: [NET] IPv6 oops bisected

From: Jeff Garzik <redacted>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:56:07 -0400

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions-ipv6: line 246: 1760 Killed
	LC_ALL=C /sbin/ip $options


NULL pointer dereference at 0x000003f8

backtrace:
:ipv6:ip6_route_add+0x1b1/0x543

'dev' can be NULL in that code branch of ip6_route_add(),
yet we're deferencing it to get dev->nd_net.

 	if ((cfg->fc_flags & RTF_REJECT) ||
 	    (dev && (dev->flags&IFF_LOOPBACK) && !(addr_type&IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))) {
 		/* hold loopback dev/idev if we haven't done so. */
-		if (dev != init_net.loopback_dev) {
+		if (dev != dev->nd_net->loopback_dev) {

I'll add the appropriate check for NULL as follows:

commit b3c1427c21f9bac4ceaa02e875f3b2c9a5592132
Author: David S. Miller [off-list ref]
Date:   Sun Oct 7 23:15:56 2007 -0700

    [IPV6]: Fix OOPS introduced by 5f5dace1ce001b24fb8286e09ffd3c4d2b547e09.
    
    In ip6_add_route(), 'dev' can be NULL, so check that before
    we try to deref dev->nd_net.
    
    Based upon a crash report by Jeff Garzik.
    
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [off-list ref]

diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index a7db84c..7109ad6 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c

@@ -1188,7 +1188,7 @@ int ip6_route_add(struct fib6_config *cfg)
 	if ((cfg->fc_flags & RTF_REJECT) ||
 	    (dev && (dev->flags&IFF_LOOPBACK) && !(addr_type&IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))) {
 		/* hold loopback dev/idev if we haven't done so. */
-		if (dev != dev->nd_net->loopback_dev) {
+		if (!dev || (dev != dev->nd_net->loopback_dev)) {
 			if (dev) {
 				dev_put(dev);
 				in6_dev_put(idev);