[PATCH 3.8 119/124] fib_frontend: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.8.13.18 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit a0065f266a9b5d51575535a25c15ccbeed9a9966 ]

The two commits 0115e8e30d (net: remove delay at device dismantle) and
748e2d9396a (net: reinstate rtnl in call_netdevice_notifiers()) silently
removed a NULL pointer check for in_dev since Linux 3.7.

This patch re-introduces this check as it causes crashing the kernel when
setting small mtu values on non-ip capable netdevices.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
index 5cd75e2..93ea4a1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
@@ -1052,6 +1052,8 @@ static int fib_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, vo
 	}
 
 	in_dev = __in_dev_get_rtnl(dev);
+	if (!in_dev)
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
 	switch (event) {
 	case NETDEV_UP:
-- 
1.8.3.2

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