Re: [PATCH] [IPSEC] Avoid null pointer dereference in xfrm4_rcv_encap

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Wed Apr 05 2006 - 13:11:20 EST


On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:59:38AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> I'm getting a panic that I've traced back to this changeset:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e695633e21ffb6a443a8c2f8b3f095c7f1a48eb0
>
> xfrm4_rcv_encap dereferences x->encap without testing it for null.

The fix for this bug has just been merged. Thanks,
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