From: Doug Kehn Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:02:16 +0000 (-0700) Subject: net/core: neighbour update Oops X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~10186^2~1379 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d7091c2bbded22430db06e5172a3b4c3ee7f3cd8;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git 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 Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c index e587e6819698..e69625084481 100644 --- 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) {