From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: susant@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, tgraf@suug.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip6_tunnel: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 13:12:23 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140509.131223.649558454524140168.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399660892-19008-1-git-send-email-susant@redhat.com>
From: Susant Sahani <susant@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 00:11:32 +0530
> The function ip6_tnl_validate assumes that the rtnl
> attribute IFLA_IPTUN_PROTO always be filled . If this
> attribute is not filled by the userspace application
> kernel get crashed with NULL pointer dereference. This
> patch fixes the potential kernel crash when
> IFLA_IPTUN_PROTO is missing .
>
> Signed-off-by: Susant Sahani <susant@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
You really need to fix the date on your computer, it was not
Saturday May 10th when you submitted this patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-09 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-09 18:41 [PATCH] ip6_tunnel: fix potential NULL pointer dereference Susant Sahani
2014-05-09 17:12 ` David Miller [this message]
[not found] ` <536D0DA8.10106@redhat.com>
2014-05-09 17:19 ` David Miller
2014-05-13 4:27 ` David Miller
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