Starting in 2.6.37 we have our own flag for identifying net_devices
as being attached to OVS. However, it's possible to receive packets
before this flag has been applied, resulting in a NULL vport when
processing the packet. This checks to make sure that the vport is
valid instead of crashing.
Bug #5675
Reported-by: Brad Hall <brad@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
/* Must be called with rcu_read_lock. */
static void netdev_port_receive(struct vport *vport, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
+ if (unlikely(!vport)) {
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ return;
+ }
+
/* Make our own copy of the packet. Otherwise we will mangle the
* packet for anyone who came before us (e.g. tcpdump via AF_PACKET).
* (No one comes after us, since we tell handle_bridge() that we took