This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6: Fix inet6_init() cleanup order
to the 3.12-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:
ipv6-fix-inet6_init-cleanup-order.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Dec 5 16:16:39 PST 2013
From: Vlad Yasevich <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:17:24 -0500
Subject: ipv6: Fix inet6_init() cleanup order
From: Vlad Yasevich <[email protected]>
Commit 6d0bfe22611602f36617bc7aa2ffa1bbb2f54c67
net: ipv6: Add IPv6 support to the ping socket
introduced a change in the cleanup logic of inet6_init and
has a bug in that ipv6_packet_cleanup() may not be called.
Fix the cleanup ordering.
CC: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
CC: Lorenzo Colitti <[email protected]>
CC: Fabio Estevam <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
@@ -965,10 +965,10 @@ out:
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
sysctl_fail:
- ipv6_packet_cleanup();
+ pingv6_exit();
#endif
pingv6_fail:
- pingv6_exit();
+ ipv6_packet_cleanup();
ipv6_packet_fail:
tcpv6_exit();
tcpv6_fail:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.12/ipv6-fix-inet6_init-cleanup-order.patch
queue-3.12/bridge-flush-br-s-address-entry-in-fdb-when-remove-the-bridge-dev.patch
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