From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: [PATCH] NET: ROSE: Don't dereference NULL neighbour pointer. Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:46:53 +0200 Message-ID: <20150618224652.GB17494@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org A ROSE socket doesn't necessarily always have a neighbour pointer so check if the neighbour pointer is valid before dereferencing it. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle Tested-by: Bernard Pidoux Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #2.6.11+ diff --git a/net/rose/af_rose.c b/net/rose/af_rose.c index 8ae6030..dd304bc 100644 --- a/net/rose/af_rose.c +++ b/net/rose/af_rose.c @@ -192,7 +192,8 @@ static void rose_kill_by_device(struct net_device *dev) if (rose->device == dev) { rose_disconnect(s, ENETUNREACH, ROSE_OUT_OF_ORDER, 0); - rose->neighbour->use--; + if (rose->neighbour) + rose->neighbour->use--; rose->device = NULL; } }