On 2018-04-22 23:50, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> please add
>
>> From f15ca723c1ebe6c1a06bc95fda6b62cd87b44559 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:03:03 +0100
>> Subject: net: don't call update_pmtu unconditionally
>>
>> Some dst_ops (e.g. md_dst_ops)) doesn't set this handler. It may result to:
>> "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)"
>>
>> Let's add a helper to check if update_pmtu is available before calling it.
>>
>> Fixes: 52a589d51f10 ("geneve: update skb dst pmtu on tx path")
>> Fixes: a93bf0ff4490 ("vxlan: update skb dst pmtu on tx path")
>> CC: Roman Kapl <code@xxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> to 4.14.x.
>
> This fixes NULL derefs caused by a93bf0ff4490 ("vxlan: update
> skb dst pmtu on tx path"), which was backported to 4.14.24.
*ping* - Not yet applied and not yet queued. Is there a problem with the
patch which prevents a cherry-pick for 4.14.x?
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Regards,
Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer
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