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authorDoug Kehn <rdkehn@yahoo.com>2010-07-14 18:02:16 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-07-14 18:02:16 -0700
commit91a72a70594e5212c97705ca6a694bd307f7a26b (patch)
tree98e86dae9f15d98b199c96e18128a71155ce0e8e /net
parent87fd308cfc6b2e880bf717a740bd5c58d2aed10c (diff)
downloadlinux-91a72a70594e5212c97705ca6a694bd307f7a26b.tar.bz2
net/core: neighbour update Oops
When configuring DMVPN (GRE + openNHRP) and a GRE remote address is configured a kernel Oops is observed. The obserseved Oops is caused by a NULL header_ops pointer (neigh->dev->header_ops) in neigh_update_hhs() when void (*update)(struct hh_cache*, const struct net_device*, const unsigned char *) = neigh->dev->header_ops->cache_update; is executed. The dev associated with the NULL header_ops is the GRE interface. This patch guards against the possibility that header_ops is NULL. This Oops was first observed in kernel version 2.6.26.8. Signed-off-by: Doug Kehn <rdkehn@yahoo.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/neighbour.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 6ba1c0eece03..a4e0a7482c2b 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -949,7 +949,10 @@ static void neigh_update_hhs(struct neighbour *neigh)
{
struct hh_cache *hh;
void (*update)(struct hh_cache*, const struct net_device*, const unsigned char *)
- = neigh->dev->header_ops->cache_update;
+ = NULL;
+
+ if (neigh->dev->header_ops)
+ update = neigh->dev->header_ops->cache_update;
if (update) {
for (hh = neigh->hh; hh; hh = hh->hh_next) {