When I tried to set mac address of a bridge interface to a mac address which already learned on this bridge, I got system hang. The cause is straight forward: function br_fdb_change_mac_address calls fdb_insert with NULL source nbp. Then an fdb lookup is performed. If an fdb entry is found and it's local, it's OK. But if it's not local, source is dereferenced for printk without NULL check. Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/bridge/br_fdb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c index 10b47d4..c581f12 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ static int fdb_insert(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_bridge_port *source, return 0; br_warn(br, "adding interface %s with same address " "as a received packet\n", - source->dev->name); + source ? source->dev->name : br->dev->name); fdb_delete(br, fdb); } -- 1.7.10.4