Staging: batman-adv: Don't write in not allocated packet_buff
Each net_device in a system will automatically managed as a possible batman_if and holds different informations like a buffer with a prepared originator messages. To reduce the memory usage, the packet_buff will only be allocated when the interface is really added/enabled for batman-adv. The function to update the hw address information inside the packet_buff just assumes that the packet_buff is always initialised and thus the kernel will just oops when we try to change the hw address of a not already fully enabled interface. We must always check if the packet_buff is allocated before we try to change information inside of it. Reported-by: Tim Glaremin <Tim.Glaremin@web.de> Reported-by: Kazuki Shimada <zukky@bb.banban.jp> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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