Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-08-23

[PATCH] net: ipconfig: Fix NULL pointer dereference on RARP/BOOTP/DHCP timeout

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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Date: 2016-08-22 13:01:07
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Subsystem: networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds

If no RARP, BOOTP, or DHCP response is received, ic_dev is never set,
causing a NULL pointer dereference in ic_close_devs():

    Sending DHCP requests ...... timed out!
    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004

To fix this, add a check to avoid dereferencing ic_dev if it is still
NULL.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Fixes: 2647cffb2bc6fbed ("net: ipconfig: Support using "delayed" DHCP replies")
---
 net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index ba9cbeafbb2e0817..071a785c65eb7ab5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ static void __init ic_close_devs(void)
 	while ((d = next)) {
 		next = d->next;
 		dev = d->dev;
-		if (dev != ic_dev->dev && !netdev_uses_dsa(dev)) {
+		if ((!ic_dev || dev != ic_dev->dev) && !netdev_uses_dsa(dev)) {
 			pr_debug("IP-Config: Downing %s\n", dev->name);
 			dev_change_flags(dev, d->flags);
 		}
-- 
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