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Bug 733985

Summary: kernel: regression in CVE-2011-1768 fix [rhel-6.2]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jiri Benc <jbenc>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.2CC: anton, arozansk, cebbert, davej, eteo, fhrbata, kmcmartin, lwang, sforsber
Target Milestone: rc   
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: 733986 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-09-07 16:42:26 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 733986    

Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2011-08-29 04:43:03 UTC
Description of problem:
The upstream commit d5aa407f59f5b83d2c50ec88f5bf56d40f1f8978 ("tunnels: fix
netns vs proto registration ordering") was not backported correctly, and results in a NULL pointer dereference in ip6_tunnel.c.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380609
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633738

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
index 7fb3e02..53e0d51 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
@@ -1466,7 +1466,7 @@ static int __init ip6_tunnel_init(void)
 {
        int  err;
 
-       err = register_pernet_device(&ip6_tnl_net_ops);
+       err = register_pernet_gen_device(&ip6_tnl_net_id, &ip6_tnl_net_ops);
        if (err < 0)
                goto out_pernet;

The upstream commit d5aa407 that has this regression was previously backported in 6.1.z via RHSA-2011:0928.