[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "NET: ROSE: Don't dereference NULL neighbour pointer." has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    NET: ROSE: Don't dereference NULL neighbour pointer.

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.y-ckt4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From c79ebc78e2c4155c173c14002db4f91de56885e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf at linux-mips.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:46:53 +0200
Subject: NET: ROSE: Don't dereference NULL neighbour pointer.

commit d496f7842aada20c61e6044b3395383fa972872c upstream.

A ROSE socket doesn't necessarily always have a neighbour pointer so check
if the neighbour pointer is valid before dereferencing it.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf at linux-mips.org>
Tested-by: Bernard Pidoux <f6bvp at free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/rose/af_rose.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rose/af_rose.c b/net/rose/af_rose.c
index 43bac7c..58e759e 100644
--- a/net/rose/af_rose.c
+++ b/net/rose/af_rose.c
@@ -192,7 +192,8 @@ static void rose_kill_by_device(struct net_device *dev)

 		if (rose->device == dev) {
 			rose_disconnect(s, ENETUNREACH, ROSE_OUT_OF_ORDER, 0);
-			rose->neighbour->use--;
+			if (rose->neighbour)
+				rose->neighbour->use--;
 			rose->device = NULL;
 		}
 	}
--
1.9.1