From: Anmol Karn <anmol.karan123@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3b3fd068c56e3fbea30090859216a368398e39bf ] rose_send_frame() dereferences `neigh->dev` when called from rose_transmit_clear_request(), and the first occurrence of the `neigh` is in rose_loopback_timer() as `rose_loopback_neigh`, and it is initialized in rose_add_loopback_neigh() as NULL. i.e when `rose_loopback_neigh` used in rose_loopback_timer() its `->dev` was still NULL and rose_loopback_timer() was calling rose_rx_call_request() without checking for NULL. - net/rose/rose_link.c This bug seems to get triggered in this line: rose_call = (ax25_address *)neigh->dev->dev_addr; Fix it by adding NULL checking for `rose_loopback_neigh->dev` in rose_loopback_timer(). Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot+a1c743815982d9496393@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tested-by: syzbot+a1c743815982d9496393@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=9d2a7ca8c7f2e4b682c97578dfa3f236258300b3 Signed-off-by: Anmol Karn <anmol.karan123@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201119191043.28813-1-anmol.karan123@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/rose/rose_loopback.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/net/rose/rose_loopback.c +++ b/net/rose/rose_loopback.c @@ -99,10 +99,19 @@ static void rose_loopback_timer(struct t } if (frametype == ROSE_CALL_REQUEST) { - if ((dev = rose_dev_get(dest)) != NULL) { - if (rose_rx_call_request(skb, dev, rose_loopback_neigh, lci_o) == 0) - kfree_skb(skb); - } else { + if (!rose_loopback_neigh->dev) { + kfree_skb(skb); + continue; + } + + dev = rose_dev_get(dest); + if (!dev) { + kfree_skb(skb); + continue; + } + + if (rose_rx_call_request(skb, dev, rose_loopback_neigh, lci_o) == 0) { + dev_put(dev); kfree_skb(skb); } } else {