From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>
Cc: Yiqi Sun <sunyiqixm@gmail.com>,
horms@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
dsahern@kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: icmp: fix null-ptr-deref in icmp_build_probe(): manual merge
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 08:36:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260406083615.32f44e4f@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7df7e27-992e-4973-b6fb-63cdb7b40158@kernel.org>
On Mon, 6 Apr 2026 12:48:28 +0200 Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> - dev = ipv6_stub->ipv6_dev_find(net, &iio->ident.addr.ip_addr.ipv6_addr, dev);
> + dev = ipv6_dev_find(net, &iio->ident.addr.ip_addr.ipv6_addr, dev);
> + /*
> + * If IPv6 identifier lookup is unavailable, silently
> + * discard the request instead of misreporting NO_IF.
> + */
> + if (IS_ERR(dev))
> + return false;
> +
> dev_hold(dev);
> break;
See my reply, AFAIU we can just delete this new check in net-next.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-06 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-02 7:04 [PATCH net] ipv4: icmp: fix null-ptr-deref in icmp_build_probe() Yiqi Sun
2026-04-03 22:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-03 23:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-04-06 10:48 ` [PATCH net] ipv4: icmp: fix null-ptr-deref in icmp_build_probe(): manual merge Matthieu Baerts
2026-04-06 15:36 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-04-06 16:10 ` Matthieu Baerts
2026-04-06 16:46 ` Jakub Kicinski
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