2.6.35-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
commit f86b9984250fa2b71ce36d4693a939a58579583b upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
drivers/staging/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ static bool hardif_is_iface_up(struct ba
static void update_mac_addresses(struct batman_if *batman_if)
{
+ if (!batman_if || !batman_if->packet_buff)
+ return;
+
addr_to_string(batman_if->addr_str, batman_if->net_dev->dev_addr);
memcpy(((struct batman_packet *)(batman_if->packet_buff))->orig,
@@ -338,6 +341,7 @@ static struct batman_if *hardif_add_inte
batman_if->if_num = -1;
batman_if->net_dev = net_dev;
batman_if->if_status = IF_NOT_IN_USE;
+ batman_if->packet_buff = NULL;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&batman_if->list);
check_known_mac_addr(batman_if->net_dev->dev_addr);
--
