From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jarkao2@gmail.com
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, djohnson@starentnetworks.com,
sakkiped@starentnetworks.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Fix possible NULL dereference in icmp6_dst_alloc
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:14:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100127.021424.263649631.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100127095952.GA11635@ff.dom.local>
From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:59:52 +0000
> While looking at the "Deadlock in IPv6 code while garbage collection
> on the rwlock protecting the routing tree" reported by Srinivas
> Akkipeddi I found there is possible a NULL pointer dereference in
> icmp6_dst_alloc().
>
> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Jarek, if rt is NULL so is &rt->u.dst
That's two patches trying to fix this same non-problem in
two different places today :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-27 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-22 21:57 Deadlock in IPv6 code while garbage collection on the rwlock protecting the routing tree Akkipeddi, Srinivas
2009-12-22 22:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-23 17:44 ` Dave Johnson
2009-12-23 18:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-23 10:22 ` David Miller
2010-01-26 9:48 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-26 10:35 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27 9:59 ` [PATCH] ipv6: Fix possible NULL dereference in icmp6_dst_alloc Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27 10:14 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-01-27 10:34 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27 11:04 ` David Miller
2010-01-27 12:17 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27 12:23 ` David Miller
2010-01-27 12:43 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27 13:14 ` David Miller
2010-01-27 13:28 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27 12:35 ` Atis Elsts
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