SCTP: Check to make sure file is valid before setting timeout
In-kernel sockets created with sock_create_kern don't usually
have a file and file descriptor allocated to them. As a result,
when SCTP tries to check the non-blocking flag, we Oops when
dereferencing a NULL file pointer.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
index 1e78827..b1917f6 100644
--- a/net/sctp/socket.c
+++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
@@ -980,6 +980,7 @@
union sctp_addr *sa_addr;
void *addr_buf;
unsigned short port;
+ unsigned int f_flags = 0;
sp = sctp_sk(sk);
ep = sp->ep;
@@ -1106,7 +1107,14 @@
af->to_sk_daddr(&to, sk);
sk->sk_err = 0;
- timeo = sock_sndtimeo(sk, sk->sk_socket->file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK);
+ /* in-kernel sockets don't generally have a file allocated to them
+ * if all they do is call sock_create_kern().
+ */
+ if (sk->sk_socket->file)
+ f_flags = sk->sk_socket->file->f_flags;
+
+ timeo = sock_sndtimeo(sk, f_flags & O_NONBLOCK);
+
err = sctp_wait_for_connect(asoc, &timeo);
/* Don't free association on exit. */