Sometimes a nullpointer dereferencing occurs because of using a wrong
pointer arithmetic in udp_uncompression.
This patch changes "**(hc06_ptr + 3)" to the right one "*(*hc06_ptr +
3)". Dereferencing like "**(hc06_ptr + 3)" works in a random case only.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.ar...@gmail.com>
---
net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
index e69da9f..55d1cf4 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ lowpan_compress_udp_header(u8 **hc06_ptr, struct sk_buff
*skb)
LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_4BIT_PORT)) {
pr_debug("UDP header: both ports compression to 4 bits\n");
**hc06_ptr = LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_CS_P_11;
- **(hc06_ptr + 1) = /* subtraction is faster */
+ *(*hc06_ptr + 1) = /* subtraction is faster */
(u8)((uh->dest - LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_4BIT_PORT) +
((uh->source & LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_4BIT_PORT) << 4));
*hc06_ptr += 2;
@@ -356,14 +356,14 @@ lowpan_compress_udp_header(u8 **hc06_ptr, struct sk_buff
*skb)
pr_debug("UDP header: remove 8 bits of dest\n");
**hc06_ptr = LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_CS_P_01;
memcpy(*hc06_ptr + 1, &uh->source, 2);
- **(hc06_ptr + 3) = (u8)(uh->dest - LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_8BIT_PORT);
+ *(*hc06_ptr + 3) = (u8)(uh->dest - LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_8BIT_PORT);
*hc06_ptr += 4;
} else if ((uh->source & LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_8BIT_MASK) ==
LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_8BIT_PORT) {
pr_debug("UDP header: remove 8 bits of source\n");
**hc06_ptr = LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_CS_P_10;
memcpy(*hc06_ptr + 1, &uh->dest, 2);
- **(hc06_ptr + 3) = (u8)(uh->source - LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_8BIT_PORT);
+ *(*hc06_ptr + 3) = (u8)(uh->source - LOWPAN_NHC_UDP_8BIT_PORT);
*hc06_ptr += 4;
} else {
pr_debug("UDP header: can't compress\n");
--
1.8.4
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