4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 7adf3246092f5e87ed0fa610e8088fae416c581f ] In ip6_neigh_lookup(), we must not return errors coming from neigh_create(): if creation of a neighbour entry fails, the lookup should return NULL, in the same way as it's done in __neigh_lookup(). Otherwise, callers legitimately checking for a non-NULL return value of the lookup function might dereference an invalid pointer. For instance, on neighbour table overflow, ndisc_router_discovery() crashes ndisc_update() by passing ERR_PTR(-ENOBUFS) as 'neigh' argument. Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <jishi@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: f8a1b43b709d ("net/ipv6: Create a neigh_lookup for FIB entries") Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/route.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -210,7 +210,9 @@ struct neighbour *ip6_neigh_lookup(const n = __ipv6_neigh_lookup(dev, daddr); if (n) return n; - return neigh_create(&nd_tbl, daddr, dev); + + n = neigh_create(&nd_tbl, daddr, dev); + return IS_ERR(n) ? NULL : n; } static struct neighbour *ip6_dst_neigh_lookup(const struct dst_entry *dst,