Re: OOPS, ip -f inet6 route get fec0::1, linux-2.6.26, ip6_route_output,rt6_fill_node+0x175

[Brian Haley]

Eugene Teo wrote:
> I think it's better to use a helper routine like ipv6_get_saddr to make
> sure that both dst and rt6i_idev arguments are checked for NULL.
>
> I have compiled, and tested the patch.
>
> Thanks,
> Eugene
>
> ---
> Fix NULL pointer dereference in rt6_fill_node().
>
> # ip -f inet6 route get fec0::1
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000
> IP: [<c0369b85>] rt6_fill_node+0x175/0x3b0
> EIP is at rt6_fill_node+0x175/0x3b0
>
> Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@xxxxxx>

But Yoshfuji might have another opinion since he did the work to remove 
ipv6_get_saddr() in the first place.

-Brian
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