On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:27:44PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> Michał reported a NULL pointer deref during fib_sync_down_dev() when
> unregistering a netdevice. The problem is that we don't check for
> 'in_dev' being NULL, which can happen in very specific cases.
>
> Usually routes are flushed upon NETDEV_DOWN sent in either the netdev or
> the inetaddr notification chains. However, if an interface isn't
> configured with any IP address, then it's possible for host routes to be
> flushed following NETDEV_UNREGISTER, after NULLing dev->ip_ptr in
> inetdev_destroy().
>
> To reproduce:
> $ ip link add type dummy
> $ ip route add local 1.1.1.0/24 dev dummy0
> $ ip link del dev dummy0
>
> Fix this by checking for the presence of 'in_dev' before referencing it.
>
> Fixes: 982acb97560c ("ipv4: fib: Notify about nexthop status changes")
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
> Reported-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-li...@rere.qmqm.pl>
Tested-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-li...@rere.qmqm.pl>
Thanks!
