On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:00:57 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:58:36 -0400
> 
> > After debugging an oops 
> > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=209231)
> > I find it happens here in socket.c::sock_ioctl() line 902:
> > 
> >                default:
> > =============>          err = sock->ops->ioctl(sock, cmd, arg);
> > 
> >                         /*
> >                          * If this ioctl is unknown try to hand it down
> >                          * to the NIC driver.
> >                          */
> >                         if (err == -ENOIOCTLCMD)
> >                                 err = dev_ioctl(cmd, argp);
> >                         break;
> > 
> > 
> > ioctl is NULL and the kernel jumps to address 0. Should we add a check
> > for that?
> > 
> > Bug report:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=306801
> 
> Every protocol should provide a non-NULL ->ioctl() method,
> find out which one isn't and fix it

Auditing the net-2.6.24 tree all instances found by cscope are safe.

        


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