ip6_tunnel: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
authorSusant Sahani <susant@redhat.com>
Fri, 9 May 2014 18:41:32 +0000 (00:11 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 31 May 2014 20:20:37 +0000 (13:20 -0700)
commita3db451d65cb1b0195ebf19798811963b30173ea
tree88f5d86c7d35c7bbe026f2b5cac957e53ef41a9d
parente31895fa971b7550a35c482b55666be16bd1c307
ip6_tunnel: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

[ 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@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c