2.6.38-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 372b2312010bece1e36f577d6c99a6193ec54cbd ]

Using plain hlist_del() in dev_change_name() is wrong since a
concurrent reader can crash trying to dereference LIST_POISON1.

Bug introduced in commit 72c9528bab94 (net: Introduce
dev_get_by_name_rcu())

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1006,7 +1006,7 @@ rollback:
        }
 
        write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
-       hlist_del(&dev->name_hlist);
+       hlist_del_rcu(&dev->name_hlist);
        write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
 
        synchronize_rcu();


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