On Tue, 2022-12-06 at 13:22 +0100, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
«Внимание! Данное письмо от внешнего адресата!»
On 12/6/22 08:08, Viacheslav Mitrofanov wrote:
MAC address of a link-partner is not saved for future use because of bad condition of if statement. Moreover it can potentially cause to NULL-pointer dereference.
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Mitrofanov v.v.mitrofanov@yadro.com
net/ndisc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Daniel Schwierzeck daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com
diff --git a/net/ndisc.c b/net/ndisc.c index 3c0eeeaea3..56fc6390bc 100644 --- a/net/ndisc.c +++ b/net/ndisc.c @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ int ndisc_receive(struct ethernet_hdr *et, struct ip6_hdr *ip6, int len) ndisc_extract_enetaddr(ndisc, neigh_eth_addr);
/* save address for later use */
if (!net_nd_packet_mac)
if (net_nd_packet_mac) memcpy(net_nd_packet_mac,neigh_eth_addr, 7);
/* modify header, and transmit it */--
- Daniel
This patch is not appropriate!net_nd_packet_mac is just a pointer, moreover there is no memory allocation. It has just keep a pointer to neigh_eth_addr. So the solution must be sth. like net_nd_packet_mac = neigh_eth_addr;