bonding: fix NULL pointer deref in startup processing
authorJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:07:45 +0000 (18:07 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:28:12 +0000 (04:28 -0800)
Fix the "are we creating a duplicate" check to not compare
the name if the name is NULL (meaning that the system should select
a name).  Bug reported by Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c

index 65c7ebafaacd7e0caa734bef1f6d0cbfe5631962..81b45740ed77079ea2e6f8671aee9b150105a014 100644 (file)
@@ -4896,14 +4896,16 @@ int bond_create(char *name, struct bond_params *params, struct bonding **newbond
        down_write(&bonding_rwsem);
 
        /* Check to see if the bond already exists. */
-       list_for_each_entry_safe(bond, nxt, &bond_dev_list, bond_list)
-               if (strnicmp(bond->dev->name, name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0) {
-                       printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME
+       if (name) {
+               list_for_each_entry_safe(bond, nxt, &bond_dev_list, bond_list)
+                       if (strnicmp(bond->dev->name, name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0) {
+                               printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME
                               ": cannot add bond %s; it already exists\n",
-                              name);
-                       res = -EPERM;
-                       goto out_rtnl;
-               }
+                                      name);
+                               res = -EPERM;
+                               goto out_rtnl;
+                       }
+       }
 
        bond_dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct bonding), name ? name : "",
                                ether_setup);