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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2007-10-18 05:09:28 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2007-10-18 05:09:28 -0700
commit1b83336bb9fa4f110b5b0a4378a82cd5f0fd0ac8 (patch)
tree0eb85178fe55ac084d2e62037432a1f8ae48b74d /include/linux
parentdf2e014bfbbf26d160e1bf47b05fc05c96205e2b (diff)
[NET]: Fix OOPS due to missing check in dev_parse_header().
[ This is kernel bugzilla 9174 "linux-2.6.23-git11 kernel panic" ] The device in question is an IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel, which doesn't have any header_ops, so the crash happens in dev_parse_header when dereferencing them. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 39dd83b183a..452c88d971a 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ static inline int dev_parse_header(const struct sk_buff *skb,
{
const struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
- if (!dev->header_ops->parse)
+ if (!dev->header_ops || !dev->header_ops->parse)
return 0;
return dev->header_ops->parse(skb, haddr);
}