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| author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2010-03-18 21:16:45 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-03-18 21:16:45 -0700 |
| commit | 0641e4fbf2f824faee00ea74c459a088d94905fd (patch) | |
| tree | 54fdd8bc2e3a928ff0f7621c06e1e604eaf0529c /net/core | |
| parent | 54d259d474e1fee6f6bb8f0f1360d85195199ac5 (diff) | |
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net: Potential null skb->dev dereference
When doing "ifenslave -d bond0 eth0", there is chance to get NULL
dereference in netif_receive_skb(), because dev->master suddenly becomes
NULL after we tested it.
We should use ACCESS_ONCE() to avoid this (or rcu_dereference())
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index bcc490cc9452..59d4394d2ce8 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -2483,6 +2483,7 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb) { struct packet_type *ptype, *pt_prev; struct net_device *orig_dev; + struct net_device *master; struct net_device *null_or_orig; struct net_device *null_or_bond; int ret = NET_RX_DROP; @@ -2503,11 +2504,12 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb) null_or_orig = NULL; orig_dev = skb->dev; - if (orig_dev->master) { - if (skb_bond_should_drop(skb)) + master = ACCESS_ONCE(orig_dev->master); + if (master) { + if (skb_bond_should_drop(skb, master)) null_or_orig = orig_dev; /* deliver only exact match */ else - skb->dev = orig_dev->master; + skb->dev = master; } __get_cpu_var(netdev_rx_stat).total++; |