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| author | stephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> | 2010-06-21 11:00:13 +0000 | 
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-06-25 21:16:57 -0700 | 
| commit | 9f888160bdcccf0565dd2774956b8d9456e610be (patch) | |
| tree | 6366fff5417a97bbecdfe4d5f4e63c6fe5cb1b97 /net/ipv6/ndisc.c | |
| parent | 1a61a83ff59378a5613d8c706c4a660c353b62a8 (diff) | |
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ipv6: fix NULL reference in proxy neighbor discovery
The addition of TLLAO option created a kernel OOPS regression
for the case where neighbor advertisement is being sent via
proxy path.  When using proxy, ipv6_get_ifaddr() returns NULL
causing the NULL dereference.
Change causing the bug was:
commit f7734fdf61ec6bb848e0bafc1fb8bad2c124bb50
Author: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 11:39:15 2009 +0000
    make TLLAO option for NA packets configurable
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/ndisc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 2 | 
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c index 0abdc242ddb..2efef52fb46 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c @@ -586,6 +586,7 @@ static void ndisc_send_na(struct net_device *dev, struct neighbour *neigh,  		src_addr = solicited_addr;  		if (ifp->flags & IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC)  			override = 0; +		inc_opt |= ifp->idev->cnf.force_tllao;  		in6_ifa_put(ifp);  	} else {  		if (ipv6_dev_get_saddr(dev_net(dev), dev, daddr, @@ -599,7 +600,6 @@ static void ndisc_send_na(struct net_device *dev, struct neighbour *neigh,  	icmp6h.icmp6_solicited = solicited;  	icmp6h.icmp6_override = override; -	inc_opt |= ifp->idev->cnf.force_tllao;  	__ndisc_send(dev, neigh, daddr, src_addr,  		     &icmp6h, solicited_addr,  		     inc_opt ? ND_OPT_TARGET_LL_ADDR : 0);  |