4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 40c3ff6d5e0809505a067dd423c110c5658c478c ] Packet sockets may call dev_header_parse with NULL daddr. Make lowpan_header_ops.create fail. Fixes: 87a93e4eceb4 ("ieee802154: change needed headroom/tailroom") Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alexander Aring <aring@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c +++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ int lowpan_header_create(struct sk_buff const struct ipv6hdr *hdr = ipv6_hdr(skb); struct neighbour *n; + if (!daddr) + return -EINVAL; + /* TODO: * if this package isn't ipv6 one, where should it be routed? */