From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net,
jon.maloy@ericsson.com, maloy@donjonn.com,
ying.xue@windriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v1 1/1] tipc: fix nullptr crash during subscription cancel
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 23:01:03 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160306.230103.935516724641513071.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457024094-29530-1-git-send-email-parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
From: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 17:54:54 +0100
> commit 4d5cfcba2f6e ('tipc: fix connection abort during subscription
> cancel'), removes the check for a valid subscription before calling
> tipc_nametbl_subscribe().
>
> This will lead to a nullptr exception when we process a
> subscription cancel request. For a cancel request, a null
> subscription is passed to tipc_nametbl_subscribe() resulting
> in exception.
>
> In this commit, we call tipc_nametbl_subscribe() only for
> a valid subscription.
>
> Fixes: 4d5cfcba2f6e ('tipc: fix connection abort during subscription cancel')
> Reported-by: Anders Widell <anders.widell@ericsson.com>
> Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-07 4:01 UTC|newest]
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2016-03-03 16:54 [PATCH net v1 1/1] tipc: fix nullptr crash during subscription cancel Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan
2016-03-07 4:01 ` David Miller [this message]
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