Re: net: GPF in rt6_nexthop_info

[Eric Dumazet]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:09 PM, David Ahern <dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2/28/17 5:10 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> David, rt->rt6i_idev can be NULL.
>
> Do you know of an example where rt6i_idev can be NULL - besides the
> null_entry rt which is null only because of init order?


I might have been mistaken, but many points in net/ipv6/route.c test
rt->rt6i_idev being NULL or not before dereferencing it.

Maybe other rts (other than null_entry) share this property.