From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: BUG: NULL pointer dereference in netif_carrier_off Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:37:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20130110.143737.1586417148052592077.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1357840590.27446.2331.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1357842765.27446.2396.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tom.parkin@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:34528 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753276Ab3AJWhi (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:37:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1357842765.27446.2396.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:32:45 -0800 > [PATCH net-next] veth: fix a NULL deref in netif_carrier_off > > In commit d0e2c55e7c94 (veth: avoid a NULL deref in veth_stats_one) > we now clear the peer pointers in veth_dellink() > > veth_close() must therefore make sure the peer pointer is set. > > Reported-by: Tom Parkin > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Applied.