The patch titled
Possible NULL dereference in net/core/rtnetlink.c
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
possible-null-dereference-in-net-core-rtnetlinkc.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: Possible NULL dereference in net/core/rtnetlink.c
From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
Another possible NULL dereference spotted by coverity (#cid 1390). if the
nlmsg_parse() call fails, we goto errout, where we call dev_put(), with dev
still initialized to NULL.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN net/core/rtnetlink.c~possible-null-dereference-in-net-core-rtnetlinkc net/core/rtnetlink.c
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c~possible-null-dereference-in-net-core-rtnetlinkc
+++ a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ static int rtnl_getlink(struct sk_buff *
err = nlmsg_parse(nlh, sizeof(*ifm), tb, IFLA_MAX, ifla_policy);
if (err < 0)
- goto errout;
+ return err;
ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
if (ifm->ifi_index >= 0) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from snakebyte@xxxxxx are
git-dvb.patch
git-gfs2.patch
possible-dereference-in.patch
git-intelfb.patch
git-netdev-all.patch
remove-unnecessary-check-in-drivers-net-depcac.patch
possible-null-dereference-in-net-core-rtnetlinkc.patch
remove-unnecessary-check-in.patch
git-scsi-misc.patch
remove-unnecessary-check-in-drivers-scsi-sgc.patch
uninitialized-variable-in-drivers-net-wan-syncpppc.patch
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