[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "decnet: Do not build routes to devices without decnet private data." has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    decnet: Do not build routes to devices without decnet private data.

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt11.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:01:30 -0400
Subject: decnet: Do not build routes to devices without decnet private data.

[ Upstream commit a36a0d4008488fa545c74445d69eaf56377d5d4e ]

In particular, make sure we check for decnet private presence
for loopback devices.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/decnet/dn_route.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_route.c b/net/decnet/dn_route.c
index 03227ff..76d3bf70 100644
--- a/net/decnet/dn_route.c
+++ b/net/decnet/dn_route.c
@@ -1036,10 +1036,13 @@ source_ok:
 	if (!fld.daddr) {
 		fld.daddr = fld.saddr;

-		err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
 		if (dev_out)
 			dev_put(dev_out);
+		err = -EINVAL;
 		dev_out = init_net.loopback_dev;
+		if (!dev_out->dn_ptr)
+			goto out;
+		err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
 		dev_hold(dev_out);
 		if (!fld.daddr) {
 			fld.daddr =
@@ -1112,6 +1115,8 @@ source_ok:
 		if (dev_out == NULL)
 			goto out;
 		dn_db = rcu_dereference_raw(dev_out->dn_ptr);
+		if (!dn_db)
+			goto e_inval;
 		/* Possible improvement - check all devices for local addr */
 		if (dn_dev_islocal(dev_out, fld.daddr)) {
 			dev_put(dev_out);
@@ -1153,6 +1158,8 @@ select_source:
 			dev_put(dev_out);
 		dev_out = init_net.loopback_dev;
 		dev_hold(dev_out);
+		if (!dev_out->dn_ptr)
+			goto e_inval;
 		fld.flowidn_oif = dev_out->ifindex;
 		if (res.fi)
 			dn_fib_info_put(res.fi);
--
2.7.4