[PATCH 3.13 32/65] vxlan: fix potential NULL dereference in arp_reduce()

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3.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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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;


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