This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: correct check in dev_addr_del()
to the 3.0-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:
net-correct-check-in-dev_addr_del.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 4fce25c3e4188b58572ad661a425f0606a73bc9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:51:04 +0000
Subject: net: correct check in dev_addr_del()
From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit a652208e0b52c190e57f2a075ffb5e897fe31c3b ]
Check (ha->addr == dev->dev_addr) is always true because dev_addr_init()
sets this. Correct the check to behave properly on addr removal.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/core/dev_addr_lists.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/core/dev_addr_lists.c
+++ b/net/core/dev_addr_lists.c
@@ -307,7 +307,8 @@ int dev_addr_del(struct net_device *dev,
*/
ha = list_first_entry(&dev->dev_addrs.list,
struct netdev_hw_addr, list);
- if (ha->addr == dev->dev_addr && ha->refcount == 1)
+ if (!memcmp(ha->addr, addr, dev->addr_len) &&
+ ha->type == addr_type && ha->refcount == 1)
return -ENOENT;
err = __hw_addr_del(&dev->dev_addrs, addr, dev->addr_len,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/net-correct-check-in-dev_addr_del.patch
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