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When a bearer is enabled, we create a 'tipc_discoverer' object to store the bearer related data along with a timer and a preformatted discovery message buffer for later probing... However, this is only carried after the bearer was set 'up', that left a race condition resulting in kernel panic. It occurs when a discovery message from a peer node is received and processed in bottom half (since the bearer is 'up' already) just before the discoverer object is created but is now accessed in order to update the preformatted buffer (with a new trial address, ...) so leads to the NULL pointer dereference. We solve the problem by simply moving the bearer 'up' setting to later, so make sure everything is ready prior to any message receiving. Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.