Subject: [PATCHv2 8/8] vxlan: fix oops when give unknown ifindex

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:35:53 -0700

If vxlan is created and the ifindex is passed; there are two cases which
are incorrectly handled by the existing code. The ifindex could be zero
(i.e. no device) or there could be no device with that ifindex.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>

--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c	2012-10-09 22:07:41.417308505 -0700
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c	2012-10-09 22:09:56.715949703 -0700
@@ -1090,14 +1090,18 @@ static int vxlan_newlink(struct net *net
 	if (data[IFLA_VXLAN_LOCAL])
 		vxlan->saddr = nla_get_be32(data[IFLA_VXLAN_LOCAL]);
 
-	if (data[IFLA_VXLAN_LINK]) {
-		vxlan->link = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_VXLAN_LINK]);
+	if (data[IFLA_VXLAN_LINK] &&
+	    (vxlan->link = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_VXLAN_LINK]))) {
+		struct net_device *lowerdev
+			 = __dev_get_by_index(net, vxlan->link);
 
-		if (!tb[IFLA_MTU]) {
-			struct net_device *lowerdev;
-			lowerdev = __dev_get_by_index(net, vxlan->link);
-			dev->mtu = lowerdev->mtu - VXLAN_HEADROOM;
+		if (!lowerdev) {
+			pr_info("ifindex %d does not exist\n", vxlan->link);
+			return -ENODEV;
 		}
+
+		if (!tb[IFLA_MTU])
+			dev->mtu = lowerdev->mtu - VXLAN_HEADROOM;
 	}
 
 	if (data[IFLA_VXLAN_TOS])