This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vxlan: fix potential NULL dereference in arp_reduce()
to the 3.13-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:
vxlan-fix-potential-null-dereference-in-arp_reduce.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.13 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 Thu Apr 10 22:03:04 PDT 2014
From: David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:32:29 -0400
Subject: vxlan: fix potential NULL dereference in arp_reduce()
From: David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 7346135dcd3f9b57f30a5512094848c678d7143e ]
This patch fixes a NULL pointer dereference in the event of an
skb allocation failure in arp_reduce().
Signed-Off-By: David L Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/vxlan.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -1208,6 +1208,9 @@ static int arp_reduce(struct net_device
neigh_release(n);
+ if (reply == NULL)
+ goto out;
+
skb_reset_mac_header(reply);
__skb_pull(reply, skb_network_offset(reply));
reply->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.13/vxlan-fix-nonfunctional-neigh_reduce.patch
queue-3.13/vxlan-fix-potential-null-dereference-in-arp_reduce.patch
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