[patch 10/37] NET: Fix packet classidier NULL pointer OOPS

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From: Greg KH
Date: Friday, March 30, 2007 - 2:04 pm

-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

[NET_SCHED]: cls_basic: fix NULL pointer dereference

cls_basic doesn't allocate tp->root before it is linked into the
active classifier list, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference
when packets hit the classifier before its ->change function is
called.

Reported by Chris Madden <chris@reflexsecurity.com>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 net/sched/cls_basic.c |   16 +++++++---------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/net/sched/cls_basic.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_basic.c
@@ -82,6 +82,13 @@ static void basic_put(struct tcf_proto *
 
 static int basic_init(struct tcf_proto *tp)
 {
+	struct basic_head *head;
+
+	head = kzalloc(sizeof(*head), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (head == NULL)
+		return -ENOBUFS;
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&head->flist);
+	tp->root = head;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -177,15 +184,6 @@ static int basic_change(struct tcf_proto
 	}
 
 	err = -ENOBUFS;
-	if (head == NULL) {
-		head = kzalloc(sizeof(*head), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (head == NULL)
-			goto errout;
-
-		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&head->flist);
-		tp->root = head;
-	}
-
 	f = kzalloc(sizeof(*f), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (f == NULL)
 		goto errout;

-- 
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