Re: NULL Pointer Deference: NFS & Telnet

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: "Arce, Abraham" <x0066660@ti.com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 20:48:02 -0500

> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> index f8abf68..eb81f76 100644
> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)
>  	if (!skb->cloned ||
>  	    !atomic_sub_return(skb->nohdr ? (1 << SKB_DATAREF_SHIFT) + 1 : 1,
>  			       &skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref)) {
> -		if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags) {
> +		if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags && skb_has_frags(skb)) {
>  			int i;
>  			for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++)
>  				put_page(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);

skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags counts the number of entries contained
in the skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[] array.

This has nothing to do with the frag list pointer,
skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list, which is what skb_has_frags()
tests.

You've got some kind of memory corruption going on and it
appears to have nothing to do with the code paths you're
playing with here.