The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit adaaa0c6ab89e82684389b80002bce893179cf2c Author: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@web.de Date: Fri May 7 21:47:06 2010 +0200

Staging: batman-adv: only modify hna-table on active module

If we haven't set the module to MODULE_ACTIVE state before (in general, no interface has yet been added to batman-adv) then the hna table is not initialised yet. If the kernel changes the mac address of the bat0 interface at this moment then an hna_local_add() called by interface_set_mac_addr() then resulted in a null pointer derefernce. With this patch we are now explicitly checking before if the state is MODULE_ACTIVE right now so that we can assume having an initialised hna table.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@web.de Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner lindner_marek@yahoo.de Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@suse.de

diff --git a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/soft-interface.c b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/soft-interface.c index 0e2307f..a42b21f 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/soft-interface.c +++ b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/soft-interface.c @@ -152,9 +152,13 @@ int interface_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *dev, void *p) if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data)) return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;

- hna_local_remove(dev->dev_addr, "mac address changed"); + /* only modify hna-table if it has been initialised before */ + if (atomic_read(&module_state) == MODULE_ACTIVE) { + hna_local_remove(dev->dev_addr, "mac address changed"); + hna_local_add(addr->sa_data); + } + memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN); - hna_local_add(dev->dev_addr);

return 0; }