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Commit: 1b83336bb9fa4f110b5b0a4378a82cd5f0fd0ac8
Parent: df2e014bfbbf26d160e1bf47b05fc05c96205e2b
Author: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Thu Oct 18 05:09:28 2007 -0700
Committer: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Thu Oct 18 05:09:28 2007 -0700
[NET]: Fix OOPS due to missing check in dev_parse_header().
[ This is kernel bugzilla 9174 "linux-2.6.23-git11 kernel panic" ]
The device in question is an IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel, which doesn't have
any header_ops, so the crash happens in dev_parse_header when
dereferencing them.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 39dd83b..452c88d 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ static inline int dev_parse_header(const struct sk_buff
*skb,
{
const struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
- if (!dev->header_ops->parse)
+ if (!dev->header_ops || !dev->header_ops->parse)
return 0;
return dev->header_ops->parse(skb, haddr);
}
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