ipv6: fix NULL reference in proxy neighbor discovery
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>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
index 0abdc24..2efef52 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -586,6 +586,7 @@
src_addr = solicited_addr;
if (ifp->flags & IFA_F_OPTIMISTIC)
override = 0;
+ inc_opt |= ifp->idev->cnf.force_tllao;
in6_ifa_put(ifp);
} else {
if (ipv6_dev_get_saddr(dev_net(dev), dev, daddr,
@@ -599,7 +600,6 @@
icmp6h.icmp6_solicited = solicited;
icmp6h.icmp6_override = override;
- inc_opt |= ifp->idev->cnf.force_tllao;
__ndisc_send(dev, neigh, daddr, src_addr,
&icmp6h, solicited_addr,
inc_opt ? ND_OPT_TARGET_LL_ADDR : 0);
