4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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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?
*/
