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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: Fix oops in dev_ifsioc()
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:04:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081219070431.GA7189@ff.dom.local> (raw)

A command like this: "brctl addif br1 eth1" issued as a user gave me
an oops when bridge module wasn't loaded. It's caused by using a dev
pointer before checking for NULL.

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
---

 net/core/dev.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 048cf11..daca72e 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3745,11 +3745,13 @@ static int dev_ifsioc(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd)
 {
 	int err;
 	struct net_device *dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr->ifr_name);
-	const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
+	const struct net_device_ops *ops;
 
 	if (!dev)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	ops = dev->netdev_ops;
+
 	switch (cmd) {
 		case SIOCSIFFLAGS:	/* Set interface flags */
 			return dev_change_flags(dev, ifr->ifr_flags);

             reply	other threads:[~2008-12-19  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-19  7:04 Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2008-12-19  8:02 ` [PATCH] net: Fix oops in dev_ifsioc() Wang Chen
2008-12-19  8:11   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-12-19  8:14     ` Wang Chen
2008-12-19  8:33       ` Julia Lawall
2008-12-23  3:35 ` David Miller

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