From: "Hefty, Sean" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:29:46 +0000
> Reported by Dave Miller:
>
> In drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:
>
> neigh = dst->neighbour;
> if (!neigh || !(neigh->nud_state & NUD_VALID)) {
> neigh_event_send(dst->neighbour, NULL);
> ret = -ENODATA;
> goto put;
> }
>
> neigh_event_send() can be passed a NULL pointer, and it will
> OOPS when this happens.
>
> Avoid passing in a NULL neighbour pointer to neigh_event_send().
> Add checks when resolving both ipv4 and ipv6 addresses.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[email protected]>
> ---
> I added a check to addr4_resolve() as well, but tried to keep the same overall
> logic. There may be a cleaner way of handling this, but we should at least
> avoid an OOPS in neigh_event_send().
See net-next-2.6, I already took care of this stuff last night during my
neigh layer cleanups.
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