From: Richard Alpe
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 11:14:54 +0200
> Make sure the socket for which the user is listing publication exists
> before parsing the socket netlink attributes.
>
> Prior to this patch a call without any socket caused a NULL pointer
> dereference in tipc_nl_publ_dump().
>
> Test
On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 14:06 +, Jon Maloy wrote:
> This is a serious bug, so it should be posted to net, not net-next.
>
> Otherwise,
> Acked-by: Jon Maloy
Well, linux-4.6 is out, so it does not really matter.
Next push from David will use his net-next tree.
Thanks.
m; tipc-discuss...@lists.sourceforge.net;
> eric.duma...@gmail.com
> Subject: [tipc-discussion] [PATCH net-next] tipc: check nl sock before parsing
> nested attributes
>
> Make sure the socket for which the user is listing publication exists
> before parsing the socket netlink att
Make sure the socket for which the user is listing publication exists
before parsing the socket netlink attributes.
Prior to this patch a call without any socket caused a NULL pointer
dereference in tipc_nl_publ_dump().
Tested-and-reported-by: Baozeng Ding
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
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