IPoIB: Fix possible NULL dereference in ipoib_start_xmit()

Fix a bug introduced in 69cce1d14049 ("net: Abstract dst->neighbour
accesses behind helpers.") where we might dereference skb_dst(skb)
even if it is NULL, which causes:

    [  240.944030] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040
    [  240.948007] IP: [<ffffffffa0366ce9>] ipoib_start_xmit+0x39/0x280 [ib_ipoib]
    [...]
    [  240.948007] Call Trace:
    [  240.948007]  <IRQ>
    [  240.948007]  [<ffffffff812cd5e0>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x2a0/0x590
    [  240.948007]  [<ffffffff8131f680>] ? arp_create+0x70/0x200
    [  240.948007]  [<ffffffff812e8e1f>] sch_direct_xmit+0xef/0x1c0

Addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41212
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
index 43f89ba0a90888d209341378ab626423b94b991f..fe89c4660d555fc821b8908c28a92ec208ca3070 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
@@ -717,11 +717,13 @@ static int ipoib_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 {
        struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
        struct ipoib_neigh *neigh;
-       struct neighbour *n;
+       struct neighbour *n = NULL;
        unsigned long flags;
 
-       n = dst_get_neighbour(skb_dst(skb));
-       if (likely(skb_dst(skb) && n)) {
+       if (likely(skb_dst(skb)))
+               n = dst_get_neighbour(skb_dst(skb));
+
+       if (likely(n)) {
                if (unlikely(!*to_ipoib_neigh(n))) {
                        ipoib_path_lookup(skb, dev);
                        return NETDEV_TX_OK;