This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: neigh: guard against NULL solicit() method
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-neigh-guard-against-null-solicit-method.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Sun Apr 30 15:46:17 CEST 2017
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:39:21 -0700
Subject: net: neigh: guard against NULL solicit() method
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 48481c8fa16410ffa45939b13b6c53c2ca609e5f ]
Dmitry posted a nice reproducer of a bug triggering in neigh_probe()
when dereferencing a NULL neigh->ops->solicit method.
This can happen for arp_direct_ops/ndisc_direct_ops and similar,
which can be used for NUD_NOARP neighbours (created when dev->header_ops
is NULL). Admin can then force changing nud_state to some other state
that would fire neigh timer.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/neighbour.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -859,7 +859,8 @@ static void neigh_probe(struct neighbour
if (skb)
skb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
write_unlock(&neigh->lock);
- neigh->ops->solicit(neigh, skb);
+ if (neigh->ops->solicit)
+ neigh->ops->solicit(neigh, skb);
atomic_inc(&neigh->probes);
kfree_skb(skb);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/tcp-clear-saved_syn-in-tcp_disconnect.patch
queue-4.4/net-packet-fix-overflow-in-check-for-tp_frame_nr.patch
queue-4.4/net-packet-fix-overflow-in-check-for-tp_reserve.patch
queue-4.4/net-neigh-guard-against-null-solicit-method.patch