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authorOliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>2016-06-21 12:14:07 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-08-10 12:54:48 +0200
commit171cf1dc83ea6ba43038a86ea455c04aee908282 (patch)
tree063ac245c7378bf151ff3ad0f118ef509c4a1bec
parent07562cc24b6312275a8b1e146066aafd496cf46e (diff)
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can: fix handling of unmodifiable configuration options fix
commit bce271f255dae8335dc4d2ee2c4531e09cc67f5a upstream. With upstream commit bb208f144cf3f59 (can: fix handling of unmodifiable configuration options) a new can_validate() function was introduced. When invoking 'ip link set can0 type can' without any configuration data can_validate() tries to validate the content without taking into account that there's totally no content. This patch adds a check for missing content. Reported-by: ajneu <ajneu1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/can/dev.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
index 910c12e2638e..348dd5001fa4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
@@ -798,6 +798,9 @@ static int can_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[])
* - control mode with CAN_CTRLMODE_FD set
*/
+ if (!data)
+ return 0;
+
if (data[IFLA_CAN_CTRLMODE]) {
struct can_ctrlmode *cm = nla_data(data[IFLA_CAN_CTRLMODE]);