Messages in this thread | | | From | Sasha Levin <> | Date | Fri, 6 Apr 2012 11:07:21 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ipvs: Verify that IP_VS protocol has been registered |
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On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 07:24:33PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: >> The registration of a protocol might fail, there were no checks >> and all registrations were assumed to be correct. This lead to >> NULL ptr dereferences when apps tried registering. > > Thanks, I will queue up this fix. > > Do you have a real-world example of this failing, if so it > might be worth pushing your change into stable.
The scenario is a failed allocation in register_ip_vs_proto_netns(), which can happen in real world cases as well.
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