From: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 15:03:45 -0800

> On 2/27/17 4:07 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
>> Andrey reported a NULL pointer deref bug in ipv6_route_ioctl()
>> -> ip6_route_del() -> __ip6_del_rt_siblings() code path. This is
>> because ip6_null_entry is returned in this path since ip6_null_entry
>> is kinda default for a ipv6 route table root node. Quote from
>> David Ahern:
>> 
>>  ip6_null_entry is the root of all ipv6 fib tables making it integrated
>>  into the table ...
>> 
>> We should ignore any attempt of trying to delete it, like we do in
>> __ip6_del_rt() path and several others.
>> 
>> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
>> Fixes: 0ae8133586ad ("net: ipv6: Allow shorthand delete of all nexthops in 
>> multipath route")
>> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  net/ipv6/route.c | 14 +++++++++-----
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> Acked-by: David Ahern <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.

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