From c8965932a2e3b70197ec02c6741c29460279e2a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Susant Sahani Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 00:11:32 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] 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-format-patch failed