From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:07:45 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: bonding: fix NULL pointer deref in startup processing
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~1065^2~33
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4fe4763cd8cacd81d892193efb48b99c99c15323;p=linux-2.6

bonding: fix NULL pointer deref in startup processing

	Fix the "are we creating a duplicate" check to not compare
the name if the name is NULL (meaning that the system should select
a name).  Bug reported by Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 65c7ebafaa..81b45740ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -4896,14 +4896,16 @@ int bond_create(char *name, struct bond_params *params, struct bonding **newbond
 	down_write(&bonding_rwsem);
 
 	/* Check to see if the bond already exists. */
-	list_for_each_entry_safe(bond, nxt, &bond_dev_list, bond_list)
-		if (strnicmp(bond->dev->name, name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0) {
-			printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME
+	if (name) {
+		list_for_each_entry_safe(bond, nxt, &bond_dev_list, bond_list)
+			if (strnicmp(bond->dev->name, name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0) {
+				printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME
 			       ": cannot add bond %s; it already exists\n",
-			       name);
-			res = -EPERM;
-			goto out_rtnl;
-		}
+				       name);
+				res = -EPERM;
+				goto out_rtnl;
+			}
+	}
 
 	bond_dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct bonding), name ? name : "",
 				ether_setup);