From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> commit e3fa461d8b0e185b7da8a101fe94dfe6dd500ac0 upstream. kongweibin reported a kernel panic in ip6_forward() when input interface has no in6 dev associated. The following tc commands were used to reproduce this panic: tc qdisc del dev vxlan100 root tc qdisc add dev vxlan100 root netem corrupt 5% CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: ccd27f05ae7b ("ipv6: fix 'disable_policy' for fwd packets") Reported-by: kongweibin <kongweibin2@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb) goto drop; if (!net->ipv6.devconf_all->disable_policy && - !idev->cnf.disable_policy && + (!idev || !idev->cnf.disable_policy) && !xfrm6_policy_check(NULL, XFRM_POLICY_FWD, skb)) { __IP6_INC_STATS(net, idev, IPSTATS_MIB_INDISCARDS); goto drop;