From: Pau Koning <paukoning@gmail.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Pau Koning <paukoning@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] batman-adv: Fix NULL pointer dereference in DAT hash collision avoidance
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:18:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360664325-7323-1-git-send-email-paukoning@gmail.com> (raw)
An entry in DAT with the hashed position of 0 can cause a NULL pointer
dereference when the first entry is checked by batadv_choose_next_candidate.
This first candidate automatically has the max value of 0 and the max_orig_node
of NULL. Not checking max_orig_node for NULL in batadv_is_orig_node_eligible
will lead to a NULL pointer dereference when checking for the lowest address.
This problem was added in 785ea1144182c341b8b85b0f8180291839d176a8
("batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - create DHT helper functions").
Signed-off-by: Pau Koning <paukoning@gmail.com>
---
net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c b/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c
index 0e05ad4..d54188a 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ static bool batadv_is_orig_node_eligible(struct batadv_dat_candidate *res,
/* this is an hash collision with the temporary selected node. Choose
* the one with the lowest address
*/
- if ((tmp_max == max) &&
+ if ((tmp_max == max) && max_orig_node &&
(batadv_compare_eth(candidate->orig, max_orig_node->orig) > 0))
goto out;
--
1.7.10.4
next reply other threads:[~2013-02-12 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-12 10:18 Pau Koning [this message]
2013-02-13 18:36 ` [PATCH] batman-adv: Fix NULL pointer dereference in DAT hash collision avoidance David Miller
2013-02-15 8:30 ` Antonio Quartulli
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