From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: roopa@cumulusnetworks.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: mpls's find_outdev()
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 21:41:09 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160407.214109.32624032556886158.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
While auditing something unrelated, I noticed that this function seems
to potentially dev_put() on an error pointer.
I guess the problem comes from the fact that there are two methods
by which the device pointer is obtained.
First, inet{,6}_fib_lookup_dev() which uses error pointers.
Second, dev_get_by_index() which returns a valid device or NULL,
and therefore does not use error pointers.
If inet{,6}_fib_lookup_dev() returns an error pointer, the !dev check
will not pass and dev_put() will operate on an error pointer and
crash.
If you agree with my analysis, could you please cook up and test a
fix?
Thank you!
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2016-04-08 1:41 David Miller [this message]
2016-04-08 2:50 ` mpls's find_outdev() roopa
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