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ipv6: fix NULL reference in proxy neighbor discovery
authorstephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:00:13 +0000 (11:00 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:26:35 +0000 (10:26 -0700)
commitd8279e0dc5e3e1520bfdad4d24489b606f54dadd
tree5f9ce1473afb2d56f053ec2d3c8e790aa3611803
parent332fe9dd977051bdef41718836187ad89c95721a
ipv6: fix NULL reference in proxy neighbor discovery

commit 9f888160bdcccf0565dd2774956b8d9456e610be upstream.

The addition of TLLAO option created a kernel OOPS regression
for the case where neighbor advertisement is being sent via
proxy path.  When using proxy, ipv6_get_ifaddr() returns NULL
causing the NULL dereference.

Change causing the bug was:
commit f7734fdf61ec6bb848e0bafc1fb8bad2c124bb50
Author: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 11:39:15 2009 +0000

    make TLLAO option for NA packets configurable

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/ipv6/ndisc.c