| Message ID | 1263120183-16365-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted, archived |
| Delegated to: | David Miller |
| Headers | show |
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:43:03 +0100 > Stanse found a potential null dereference in snmp6_unregister_dev. > There is a check for idev being NULL, but it is dereferenced > earlier. But idev cannot be NULL when passed to > snmp6_unregister_dev, so remove the test. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/net/ipv6/proc.c b/net/ipv6/proc.c index c9605c3..7b197b7 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/proc.c +++ b/net/ipv6/proc.c @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ int snmp6_unregister_dev(struct inet6_dev *idev) struct net *net = dev_net(idev->dev); if (!net->mib.proc_net_devsnmp6) return -ENOENT; - if (!idev || !idev->stats.proc_dir_entry) + if (!idev->stats.proc_dir_entry) return -EINVAL; remove_proc_entry(idev->stats.proc_dir_entry->name, net->mib.proc_net_devsnmp6);
Stanse found a potential null dereference in snmp6_unregister_dev. There is a check for idev being NULL, but it is dereferenced earlier. But idev cannot be NULL when passed to snmp6_unregister_dev, so remove the test. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Cc: "Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@netcore.fi> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org --- net/ipv6/proc.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)