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authorJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>2008-02-15 10:00:41 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-02-25 16:19:01 -0800
commitf7e1b66a194e38f9fa41f8144aa34b782fb4f53a (patch)
tree96029cdaef4dffaae551f2e92fc2b077b97fe0f5
parenta3b89e6d7396b874b8e7ec25378bb479418ef2d5 (diff)
bonding: fix NULL pointer deref in startup processing
patch 4fe4763cd8cacd81d892193efb48b99c99c15323 in mainline. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 49a198206e3d..75efa8b6a2c8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -4883,14 +4883,16 @@ 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);