Hello Simon
>---- Original Message ----
>From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Sasha Levin" <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: wensong@xxxxxxxxxxxx, ja@xxxxxx, kaber@xxxxxxxxx, davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, davej@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Fri, Apr 6, 2012, 1:19 AM
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ipvs: Verify that IP_VS protocol has been registered
>
>On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 07:24:33PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> The registration of a protocol might fail, there were no checks
>> and all registrations were assumed to be correct. This lead to
>> NULL ptr dereferences when apps tried registering.
>
>Thanks, I will queue up this fix.
>
>Do you have a real-world example of this failing, if so it
>might be worth pushing your change into stable.
I don't think this is a big thing, the only thing that can cause it is out of memory,
and that will cause a "kernel death" anyway :-(
here is the code :
register_ip_vs_proto_netns(struct net *net, struct ip_vs_protocol *pp)
{
...
struct ip_vs_proto_data *pd =
kzalloc(sizeof(struct ip_vs_proto_data), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!pd)
return -ENOMEM;
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