ip6_tunnel: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
authorSusant Sahani <susant@redhat.com>
Fri, 9 May 2014 18:41:32 +0000 (00:11 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 31 May 2014 04:52:16 +0000 (21:52 -0700)
commit4cba246ac61971484e454ee16efabb51e7452572
tree816dc72ca923e6c91e43bd2c601636d064c4968f
parent8b64afaca4d6cb80d0d1b2a4651b1efb7231f220
ip6_tunnel: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

[ Upstream commit c8965932a2e3b70197ec02c6741c29460279e2a8 ]

The function ip6_tnl_validate assumes that the rtnl
attribute IFLA_IPTUN_PROTO always be filled . If this
attribute is not filled by  the userspace application
kernel get crashed with NULL pointer dereference. This
patch fixes the potential kernel crash when
IFLA_IPTUN_PROTO is missing .

Signed-off-by: Susant Sahani <susant@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c