From: Myungho Jung <mhjungk@gmail.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3] net: core: Prevent from dereferencing null pointer when releasing SKB
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:58:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1493146695-5387-1-git-send-email-mhjungk@gmail.com> (raw)
Added NULL check to make __dev_kfree_skb_irq consistent with kfree
family of functions.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195289
Signed-off-by: Myungho Jung <mhjungk@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Correct category in subject
Changes in v3:
- Fix typo in subject
net/core/dev.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 7869ae3..22be2a6 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2450,6 +2450,9 @@ void __dev_kfree_skb_irq(struct sk_buff *skb, enum skb_free_reason reason)
{
unsigned long flags;
+ if (unlikely(!skb))
+ return;
+
if (likely(atomic_read(&skb->users) == 1)) {
smp_rmb();
atomic_set(&skb->users, 0);
--
2.7.4
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2017-04-25 18:58 Myungho Jung [this message]
2017-04-26 18:47 ` [PATCH v3] net: core: Prevent from dereferencing null pointer when releasing SKB David Miller
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