Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2015-06-23
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[PATCH] NET: ROSE: Don't dereference NULL neighbour pointer.

From: Ralf Baechle <hidden>
Date: 2015-06-18 22:47:03
Also in: linux-hams, stable
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

A ROSE socket doesn't necessarily always have a neighbour pointer so check
if the neighbour pointer is valid before dereferencing it.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <redacted>
Tested-by: Bernard Pidoux <redacted>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #2.6.11+
diff --git a/net/rose/af_rose.c b/net/rose/af_rose.c
index 8ae6030..dd304bc 100644
--- a/net/rose/af_rose.c
+++ b/net/rose/af_rose.c
@@ -192,7 +192,8 @@ static void rose_kill_by_device(struct net_device *dev)
 
 		if (rose->device == dev) {
 			rose_disconnect(s, ENETUNREACH, ROSE_OUT_OF_ORDER, 0);
-			rose->neighbour->use--;
+			if (rose->neighbour)
+				rose->neighbour->use--;
 			rose->device = NULL;
 		}
 	}
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