From: Susant Sahani <susant@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit c8965932a2e3b70197ec02c6741c29460279e2a8 ] The function ip6_tnl_validate assumes that the rtnl attribute IFLA_IPTUN_PROTO always be filled . If this attribute is not filled by the userspace application kernel get crashed with NULL pointer dereference. This patch fixes the potential kernel crash when IFLA_IPTUN_PROTO is missing . Signed-off-by: Susant Sahani <susant@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c index c1e11b5d6ccc..aac89c3c6af4 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c @@ -1549,7 +1549,7 @@ static int ip6_tnl_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[]) { u8 proto; - if (!data) + if (!data || !data[IFLA_IPTUN_PROTO]) return 0; proto = nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_IPTUN_PROTO]); -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html