batman-adv: Avoid nullptr dereference in bla after vlan_insert_tag
authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Sat, 2 Jul 2016 07:52:13 +0000 (09:52 +0200)
committerSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Tue, 5 Jul 2016 10:40:01 +0000 (12:40 +0200)
vlan_insert_tag can return NULL on errors. The bridge loop avoidance code
therefore has to check the return value of vlan_insert_tag for NULL before
it can safely operate on this pointer.

Fixes: 23721387c409 ("batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance code")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c

index 748a9ea..7129780 100644 (file)
@@ -418,9 +418,12 @@ static void batadv_bla_send_claim(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, u8 *mac,
                break;
        }
 
-       if (vid & BATADV_VLAN_HAS_TAG)
+       if (vid & BATADV_VLAN_HAS_TAG) {
                skb = vlan_insert_tag(skb, htons(ETH_P_8021Q),
                                      vid & VLAN_VID_MASK);
+               if (!skb)
+                       goto out;
+       }
 
        skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
        skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, soft_iface);