This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "vrf: fix double free and memory corruption on register_netdevice
failure"
to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
revert-vrf-fix-double-free-and-memory-corruption-on-register_netdevice-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From [email protected] Thu Dec 17 14:12:57 2015
From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:31:49 +0000
Subject: Revert "vrf: fix double free and memory corruption on
register_netdevice failure"
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>,
"David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
This reverts commit b3abad339f8e268bb261e5844ab68b18a7797c29, which
was an attempt to backport commit 7f109f7cc37108cba7243bc832988525b0d85909
upstream. The backport introduced a deadlock and other bugs.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/vrf.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/vrf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vrf.c
@@ -581,6 +581,7 @@ static int vrf_newlink(struct net *src_n
{
struct net_vrf *vrf = netdev_priv(dev);
struct net_vrf_dev *vrf_ptr;
+ int err;
if (!data || !data[IFLA_VRF_TABLE])
return -EINVAL;
@@ -589,16 +590,26 @@ static int vrf_newlink(struct net *src_n
dev->priv_flags |= IFF_VRF_MASTER;
+ err = -ENOMEM;
vrf_ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*dev->vrf_ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vrf_ptr)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ goto out_fail;
vrf_ptr->ifindex = dev->ifindex;
vrf_ptr->tb_id = vrf->tb_id;
+ err = register_netdevice(dev);
+ if (err < 0)
+ goto out_fail;
+
rcu_assign_pointer(dev->vrf_ptr, vrf_ptr);
- return register_netdev(dev);
+ return 0;
+
+out_fail:
+ kfree(vrf_ptr);
+ free_netdev(dev);
+ return err;
}
static size_t vrf_nl_getsize(const struct net_device *dev)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.3/tipc-fix-kfree_skb-of-uninitialised-pointer.patch
queue-4.3/revert-vrf-fix-double-free-and-memory-corruption-on-register_netdevice-failure.patch
queue-4.3/vrf-fix-double-free-and-memory-corruption-on-register_netdevice-failure.patch
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