veth: fix NULL dereference in veth_dellink()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fri, 8 Feb 2013 20:10:49 +0000 (20:10 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:41:43 +0000 (20:41 -0500)
commit d0e2c55e7c940 (veth: avoid a NULL deref in veth_stats_one)
added another NULL deref in veth_dellink().

# ip link add name veth1 type veth peer name veth0
# rmmod veth

We crash because veth_dellink() is called twice, so we must
take care of NULL peer.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/veth.c

index e1da42aaf9de94891e6bff691b129c2e362334fd..07a4af0aa3dcda800a9527e3ba01d9f65ea3feec 100644 (file)
@@ -426,12 +426,13 @@ static void veth_dellink(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
         * not being freed before one RCU grace period.
         */
        RCU_INIT_POINTER(priv->peer, NULL);
-
-       priv = netdev_priv(peer);
-       RCU_INIT_POINTER(priv->peer, NULL);
-
        unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, head);
-       unregister_netdevice_queue(peer, head);
+
+       if (peer) {
+               priv = netdev_priv(peer);
+               RCU_INIT_POINTER(priv->peer, NULL);
+               unregister_netdevice_queue(peer, head);
+       }
 }
 
 static const struct nla_policy veth_policy[VETH_INFO_MAX + 1] = {