Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754546AbbEECPo (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2015 22:15:44 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:50862 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752052AbbEEBV5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2015 21:21:57 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "David S. Miller" , "Ignacy Gawedzki" , "WANG Cong" Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 02:16:39 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 191/221] rtnetlink: call ->dellink on failure when ->newlink exists In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1727 Lines: 57 3.2.69-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: WANG Cong [ Upstream commit 7afb8886a05be68e376655539a064ec672de8a8e ] Ignacy reported that when eth0 is down and add a vlan device on top of it like: ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 up type vlan id 1 We will get a refcount leak: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0.1 to become free. Usage count = 2 The problem is when rtnl_configure_link() fails in rtnl_newlink(), we simply call unregister_device(), but for stacked device like vlan, we almost do nothing when we unregister the upper device, more work is done when we unregister the lower device, so call its ->dellink(). Reported-by: Ignacy Gawedzki Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -1860,8 +1860,16 @@ replay: goto out; err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, ifm); - if (err < 0) - unregister_netdevice(dev); + if (err < 0) { + if (ops->newlink) { + LIST_HEAD(list_kill); + + ops->dellink(dev, &list_kill); + unregister_netdevice_many(&list_kill); + } else { + unregister_netdevice(dev); + } + } out: put_net(dest_net); return err; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/