Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933409Ab2JKCMr (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:12:47 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:43882 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933349Ab2JKCMm (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:12:42 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: zFUqzlpUp44cPPnhYi1uqJwRLxNWoGy+14amFMVQhcMk 1349921560 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Xiaodong Xu , "David S. Miller" Subject: [ 30/84] pppoe: drop PPPOX_ZOMBIEs in pppoe_release Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:03:14 +0900 Message-Id: <20121011015422.506461937@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.0.rc0.18.gf84667d In-Reply-To: <20121011015417.017144658@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20121011015417.017144658@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-2.1.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1333 Lines: 40 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Xiaodong Xu [ Upstream commit 2b018d57ff18e5405823e5cb59651a5b4d946d7b ] When PPPOE is running over a virtual ethernet interface (e.g., a bonding interface) and the user tries to delete the interface in case the PPPOE state is ZOMBIE, the kernel will loop forever while unregistering net_device for the reference count is not decreased to zero which should have been done with dev_put(). Signed-off-by: Xiaodong Xu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/pppoe.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/pppoe.c +++ b/drivers/net/pppoe.c @@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ static int pppoe_release(struct socket * po = pppox_sk(sk); - if (sk->sk_state & (PPPOX_CONNECTED | PPPOX_BOUND)) { + if (sk->sk_state & (PPPOX_CONNECTED | PPPOX_BOUND | PPPOX_ZOMBIE)) { dev_put(po->pppoe_dev); po->pppoe_dev = NULL; } -- 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/