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* [PATCH] NET: ROSE: Don't dereference NULL neighbour pointer.
@ 2015-06-18 22:46 Ralf Baechle
  2015-06-23 10:26 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Baechle @ 2015-06-18 22:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S. Miller, netdev, linux-hams, stable

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 <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Tested-by: Bernard Pidoux <f6bvp@free.fr>
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;
 		}
 	}

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