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authorandrew hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>2009-11-24 15:16:05 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-11-29 00:25:02 -0800
commit429d33ace5ce6122817f8abe9d170eaa55dc3af9 (patch)
tree6fff27906c529427ae1a7b180450c148a093623b
parent1fd975a0520cdb27681855d5a18526e328d36b5c (diff)
downloadlinux-429d33ace5ce6122817f8abe9d170eaa55dc3af9.tar.gz
X25: Fix oops and refcnt problems from x25_dev_get
Calls to x25_dev_get check for dev = NULL which was not set.
It allowed x25 to set routes and ioctls on down interfaces.
This caused oopses and refcnt problems on device_unregister.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--net/x25/x25_route.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/x25/x25_route.c b/net/x25/x25_route.c
index 66961ea28c91..b95fae9ab393 100644
--- a/net/x25/x25_route.c
+++ b/net/x25/x25_route.c
@@ -136,8 +136,10 @@ struct net_device *x25_dev_get(char *devname)
 #if defined(CONFIG_LLC) || defined(CONFIG_LLC_MODULE)
 					&& dev->type != ARPHRD_ETHER
 #endif
-					)))
+					))){
 		dev_put(dev);
+		dev = NULL;
+	}
 
 	return dev;
 }