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authorPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>2009-05-11 00:36:35 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-05-17 20:37:55 -0700
commit5e392739d6ab72f7c35040aa07f4097904bce6e7 (patch)
tree3c363f0733de8f6f843280f84c68ee57695f0c39 /net
parent74392592bbf7e93ef383588e21aea0c1450d6f12 (diff)
netpoll: don't dereference NULL dev from np
It looks like the dev in netpoll_poll can be NULL - at lease it's checked at the function beginning. Thus the dev->netde_ops dereference looks dangerous. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/netpoll.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index b5873bdff61..64f51eec657 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -175,9 +175,13 @@ static void service_arp_queue(struct netpoll_info *npi)
void netpoll_poll(struct netpoll *np)
{
struct net_device *dev = np->dev;
- const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
+ const struct net_device_ops *ops;
+
+ if (!dev || !netif_running(dev))
+ return;
- if (!dev || !netif_running(dev) || !ops->ndo_poll_controller)
+ ops = dev->netdev_ops;
+ if (!ops->ndo_poll_controller)
return;
/* Process pending work on NIC */