[PATCH for 4.9 09/39] bridge: netlink: register netdevice before executing changelink

2017-09-17 Thread Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
From: Ido Schimmel [ Upstream commit 5b8d5429daa05bebef6ffd3297df3b502cc6f184 ] Peter reported a kernel oops when executing the following command: $ ip link add name test type bridge vlan_default_pvid 1 [13634.939408] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

[PATCH for 4.9 09/39] bridge: netlink: register netdevice before executing changelink

2017-09-17 Thread Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
From: Ido Schimmel [ Upstream commit 5b8d5429daa05bebef6ffd3297df3b502cc6f184 ] Peter reported a kernel oops when executing the following command: $ ip link add name test type bridge vlan_default_pvid 1 [13634.939408] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0190