[Bridge] [PATCH net-next 2/5] bridge: vlan: fix possible null vlgrp deref while registering new port

Nikolay Aleksandrov razor at blackwall.org
Wed Sep 30 18:16:52 UTC 2015


From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>

While a new port is being initialized the rx_handler gets set, but the
vlans get initialized later in br_add_if() and in that window if we
receive a frame with a link-local address we can try to dereference
p->vlgrp in:
br_handle_frame() -> br_handle_local_finish() -> br_should_learn()

Fix this by checking vlgrp before using it.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>
---
 net/bridge/br_vlan.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_vlan.c b/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
index 283d012c3d89..678d5c41b551 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
@@ -476,13 +476,15 @@ bool br_allowed_egress(struct net_bridge_vlan_group *vg,
 /* Called under RCU */
 bool br_should_learn(struct net_bridge_port *p, struct sk_buff *skb, u16 *vid)
 {
+	struct net_bridge_vlan_group *vg;
 	struct net_bridge *br = p->br;
 
 	/* If filtering was disabled at input, let it pass. */
 	if (!br->vlan_enabled)
 		return true;
 
-	if (!p->vlgrp->num_vlans)
+	vg = p->vlgrp;
+	if (!vg || !vg->num_vlans)
 		return false;
 
 	if (!br_vlan_get_tag(skb, vid) && skb->vlan_proto != br->vlan_proto)
-- 
2.4.3



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