On 07/04/2016 02:47 PM, Vegard Nossum wrote:
struct fib_nh->nh_dev can be NULL, so we should check it before calling
__in_dev_get_rcu on it.

That should say __in_dev_get_rtnl(), obviously.


Multiple places seem to want this (and check the return value), so we can
add a convenience wrapper for this.

This fixes a crash in AF_NETLINK sendmsg().

Please double check that I caught all the callers that need the NULL
guard.

Fixes: 0eeb075fad73 ("net: ipv4 sysctl option to ignore routes when nexthop link is 
down")
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <[email protected]>
Cc: Dinesh Dutt <[email protected]>
Cc: Scott Feldman <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <[email protected]>

I guess we could also add:

Cc: [email protected]


Vegard

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