Re: OOPS, ip -f inet6 route get fec0::1, linux-2.6.26, ip6_route_output, rt6_fill_node+0x175

Eugene Teo wrote:

I think it's better to use a helper routine like ipv6_get_saddr to make
sure that both dst and rt6i_idev arguments are checked for NULL.

I have compiled, and tested the patch.

Thanks,
Eugene

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Fix NULL pointer dereference in rt6_fill_node().

# ip -f inet6 route get fec0::1

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000
IP: [<c0369b85>] rt6_fill_node+0x175/0x3b0
EIP is at rt6_fill_node+0x175/0x3b0

Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <redacted>

Acked-by: Brian Haley <redacted>

But Yoshfuji might have another opinion since he did the work to remove 
ipv6_get_saddr() in the first place.

-Brian