From: Richard Alpe
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 11:14:54 +0200
> Make sure the socket for which the user is listing publication exists
> before parsing the socket netlink attributes.
>
> Prior to this patch a call without any socket caused a NULL pointer
> dereference in tipc_nl_publ_dump().
>
> Test
This is a serious bug, so it should be posted to net, not net-next.
Otherwise,
Acked-by: Jon Maloy
///jon
> -Original Message-
> From: Richard Alpe [mailto:richard.a...@ericsson.com]
> Sent: Monday, 16 May, 2016 05:15
> To: net...@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: splovi...@gmail.com; tipc-discussi
Acked-by: jon
Send tis to net, since it is a bug correction.
///jon
> -Original Message-
> From: Richard Alpe
> Sent: Monday, 16 May, 2016 09:50
> To: tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: Jon Maloy; Richard Alpe
> Subject: [PATCH net-next] tipc: fix nametable publication field in
The publication field of the old netlink API should contain the
publication key and not the publication reference.
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
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net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
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On 05/14/2016 02:07 AM, Jon Maloy wrote:
> TIPC based clusters are by default set up with full-mesh link
> connectivity between all nodes. Those links are expected to provide
> a short failure detection time, by default set to 1500 ms. Because
> of this, the background load for neighbor monitoring
Make sure the socket for which the user is listing publication exists
before parsing the socket netlink attributes.
Prior to this patch a call without any socket caused a NULL pointer
dereference in tipc_nl_publ_dump().
Tested-and-reported-by: Baozeng Ding
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
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net/t
