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Commit 4c58f328 authored by Glenn Ruben Bakke's avatar Glenn Ruben Bakke Committed by Johan Hedberg
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Bluetooth: 6lowpan: Fix kernel NULL pointer dereferences



The fixes provided in this patch assigns a valid net_device structure to
skb before dispatching it for further processing.

Scenario #1:
============

Bluetooth 6lowpan receives an uncompressed IPv6 header, and dispatches it
to netif. The following error occurs:

Null pointer dereference error #1 crash log:

[  845.854013] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
               0000000000000048
[  845.855785] IP: [<ffffffff816e3d36>] enqueue_to_backlog+0x56/0x240
...
[  845.909459] Call Trace:
[  845.911678]  [<ffffffff816e3f64>] netif_rx_internal+0x44/0xf0

The first modification fixes the NULL pointer dereference error by
assigning dev to the local_skb in order to set a valid net_device before
processing the skb by netif_rx_ni().

Scenario #2:
============

Bluetooth 6lowpan receives an UDP compressed message which needs further
decompression by nhc_udp. The following error occurs:

Null pointer dereference error #2 crash log:

[   63.295149] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
               0000000000000840
[   63.295931] IP: [<ffffffffc0559540>] udp_uncompress+0x320/0x626
               [nhc_udp]

The second modification fixes the NULL pointer dereference error by
assigning dev to the local_skb in the case of a udp compressed packet.
The 6lowpan udp_uncompress function expects that the net_device is set in
the skb when checking lltype.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGlenn Ruben Bakke <glenn.ruben.bakke@nordicsemi.no>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLukasz Duda <lukasz.duda@nordicsemi.no>
Acked-by: default avatarJukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
parent 00ae40e7
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