From 122bdf67f15a22bcabf6c2cab3a545d17ccf68dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:13:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: fix icmp6_dst_alloc() commit 87a115783 ( ipv6: Move xfrm_lookup() call down into icmp6_dst_alloc().) forgot to convert one error path, leading to crashes in mld_sendpack() Many thanks to Dave Jones for providing a very complete bug report. Reported-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index 8c2e3ab58f2a..22b766407de1 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ struct dst_entry *icmp6_dst_alloc(struct net_device *dev, struct net *net = dev_net(dev); if (unlikely(!idev)) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); rt = ip6_dst_alloc(&net->ipv6.ip6_dst_ops, dev, 0); if (unlikely(!rt)) { -- 2.20.1