From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
The dereference before check is wrong and leads to an oops when
p_filter_chain is NULL. The check needs to be done on the pointer to
prevent NULL dereference.
Fixes: f93e1cdcf42c ("net/sched: fix filter flushing")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
---
net/sched/cls_api.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c
index ebeeb87..eef6b07 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static void tcf_chain_flush(struct tcf_chain *chain)
{
struct tcf_proto *tp;
- if (*chain->p_filter_chain)
+ if (chain->p_filter_chain)
RCU_INIT_POINTER(*chain->p_filter_chain, NULL);
while ((tp = rtnl_dereference(chain->filter_chain)) != NULL) {
RCU_INIT_POINTER(chain->filter_chain, tp->next);
--
2.9.3