[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 3/5] can: fix handling of unmodifiable configuration options fix

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Fri Jul 08 2016 - 13:07:35 EST


4.2.8-ckt13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit bce271f255dae8335dc4d2ee2c4531e09cc67f5a upstream.

With upstream commit bb208f144cf3f59 (can: fix handling of unmodifiable
configuration options) a new can_validate() function was introduced.

When invoking 'ip link set can0 type can' without any configuration data
can_validate() tries to validate the content without taking into account that
there's totally no content. This patch adds a check for missing content.

Reported-by: ajneu <ajneu1@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/can/dev.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
index 910c12e..348dd50 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
@@ -798,6 +798,9 @@ static int can_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[])
* - control mode with CAN_CTRLMODE_FD set
*/

+ if (!data)
+ return 0;
+
if (data[IFLA_CAN_CTRLMODE]) {
struct can_ctrlmode *cm = nla_data(data[IFLA_CAN_CTRLMODE]);

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