From: Susant Sahani Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 18:41:32 +0000 (+0530) Subject: ip6_tunnel: fix potential NULL pointer dereference X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.16/fixes-against-rc1~146^2~43 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c8965932a2e3b70197ec02c6741c29460279e2a8;p=pandora-kernel.git ip6_tunnel: fix potential NULL pointer dereference The function ip6_tnl_validate assumes that the rtnl attribute IFLA_IPTUN_PROTO always be filled . If this attribute is not filled by the userspace application kernel get crashed with NULL pointer dereference. This patch fixes the potential kernel crash when IFLA_IPTUN_PROTO is missing . Signed-off-by: Susant Sahani Acked-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-diff-tree failed