From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: check return value of ipv6_get_lladdr
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:19:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C7F31A.1070504@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130623195648.GC13836@order.stressinduktion.org>
On 06/23/2013 09:56 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> We should check the return value of ipv6_get_lladdr in inet6_set_iftoken.
>
> A possible situation, which could leave ll_addr unassigned is, when
> the user removed her link-local address but a global scoped address was
> already set. In this case the interface would still be IF_READY and not
> dead. In that case the RS source address is some value from the stack.
>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-24 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-23 19:56 [PATCH net-next] ipv6: check return value of ipv6_get_lladdr Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-06-23 22:30 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-06-24 7:19 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2013-06-24 18:22 ` Flavio Leitner
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