net/core: neighbour update Oops

commit 91a72a70594e5212c97705ca6a694bd307f7a26b upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index e587e6819698cbe7485fb336cb70177e3bf98ca4..e69625084481254a792512cb50ddf05fe332057a 100644 (file)
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -945,7 +945,10 @@ 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) {