commit 4d5cfcba2f6e ('tipc: fix connection abort during subscription cancel'), removes the check for a valid subscription before calling tipc_nametbl_subscribe().
This will lead to a nullptr exception when we process a subscription cancel request. For a cancel request, a null subscription is passed to tipc_nametbl_subscribe() resulting in exception. In this commit, we call tipc_nametbl_subscribe() only for a valid subscription. Fixes: 4d5cfcba2f6e ('tipc: fix connection abort during subscription cancel') Reported-by: Anders Widell <anders.wid...@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvara...@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.ma...@ericsson.com> --- net/tipc/subscr.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/tipc/subscr.c b/net/tipc/subscr.c index 69ee2eeef968..f9ff73a8d815 100644 --- a/net/tipc/subscr.c +++ b/net/tipc/subscr.c @@ -296,7 +296,8 @@ static void tipc_subscrb_rcv_cb(struct net *net, int conid, if (tipc_subscrp_create(net, (struct tipc_subscr *)buf, subscrb, &sub)) return tipc_conn_terminate(tn->topsrv, subscrb->conid); - tipc_nametbl_subscribe(sub); + if (sub) + tipc_nametbl_subscribe(sub); } /* Handle one request to establish a new subscriber */ -- 2.1.4