Repository : ssh://git@open-mesh.org/batman-adv

On branch : master

commit 65d8217193427026169c48112c561c5ca4d1bd18 Author: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@web.de Date: Sun Feb 16 13:01:02 2014 +0100

batman-adv: compat: fix null pointer exception for kernels < 3.9

The compat code of the new multicast patchset leads to null pointer derefernces for kernels 3.9 in netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu(). This is because the initially NULL is assigned to upper, which is equal to dev. dev is dereferenced one line later, though, leading to a crash.

Fixing this by assigning NULL only when we are sure that the according pointer is not going to be dereferenced anymore.

Introduced by: 532cadf26cfbb1099ef31fae9ccafcbbfc37b9b5 ("batman-adv: Multicast Listener Announcements via Translation Table")

Reported-by: Marek Lindner mareklindner@neomailbox.ch Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@web.de Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner mareklindner@neomailbox.ch

65d8217193427026169c48112c561c5ca4d1bd18 compat.h | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compat.h b/compat.h index 7a3d235..7beba36 100644 --- a/compat.h +++ b/compat.h @@ -162,12 +162,13 @@ static inline int batadv_param_set_copystring(const char *val, #define NET_ADDR_RANDOM 0

#define netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu(dev) \ - NULL; \ + upper; \ if (dev->br_port ? 1 : 0) { \ rcu_read_unlock(); \ dev_hold(dev); \ return dev; \ - } + } else \ + dev = NULL;

#endif /* < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 36) */

@@ -371,12 +372,13 @@ static int __batadv_interface_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, \

#ifndef netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu #define netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu(dev) \ - NULL; \ + upper; \ if (dev->priv_flags & IFF_BRIDGE_PORT) { \ rcu_read_unlock(); \ dev_hold(dev); \ return dev; \ - } + } else \ + dev = NULL;

#endif /* netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu */