From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Cc: tgraf@suug.ch, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Prevent access to uninitialized fib_table_hash via /proc/net/ipv6_route
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:13:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120616.011330.636639748049380489.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120615.221502.1196734470412725503.davem@davemloft.net>
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:15:02 -0700 (PDT)
> We will now initialize fib6_init() before ip6_net_route_net_ops is registerd.
>
> This causes fib6_net_init() to run before net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry it
> initialized.
>
> Any route lookup will crash when we dereference a root's ->leaf
> because it will be NULL.
I've decided to revert this change for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-16 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-15 9:00 [PATCH] ipv6: Prevent access to uninitialized fib_table_hash via /proc/net/ipv6_route Thomas Graf
2012-06-15 10:56 ` Neil Horman
2012-06-15 22:32 ` David Miller
2012-06-16 5:15 ` David Miller
2012-06-16 8:13 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-06-16 13:07 ` Neil Horman
2012-06-16 22:22 ` David Miller
2012-06-17 6:11 ` Thomas Graf
2012-06-19 11:36 ` Thomas Graf
2012-06-19 21:13 ` David Miller
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2012-06-16 9:46 Sedat Dilek
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