Commit 70714ee9 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Jeff Garzik

[PATCH] netpoll: fix null ifa_list pointer dereference

This fixes a bug where netpoll can dereference a null ifa_list pointer when
not supplied an IP address at module load and the interface is up but no IP
is configured.

Bonus: unrelated netif_running cleanup

Signed-off by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
parent ccaf8b47
......@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
goto release;
}
if (!(ndev->flags & IFF_UP)) {
if (!netif_running(ndev)) {
unsigned short oflags;
unsigned long atmost, atleast;
......@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
rcu_read_lock();
in_dev = __in_dev_get(ndev);
if (!in_dev) {
if (!in_dev || !in_dev->ifa_list) {
rcu_read_unlock();
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: no IP address for %s, aborting\n",
np->name, np->dev_name);
......
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