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| author | Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il> | 2009-02-17 14:51:47 -0800 |
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| committer | Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> | 2009-02-17 14:51:47 -0800 |
| commit | 71d98b4628ee869d62814f6d8607d76cab4b9ec5 (patch) | |
| tree | 10b4d085aaf23020c052d5e340330d757730d138 /drivers/infiniband | |
| parent | f3b8436ad9a8ad36b3c9fa1fe030c7f38e5d3d0b (diff) | |
| download | linux-71d98b4628ee869d62814f6d8607d76cab4b9ec5.tar.gz | |
IPoIB: In unicast_arp_send(), only free newly-created paths
If path_rec_start() returns error, call path_free() only if the path was newly-created. If we free an existing path whose valid flag was zero, (but do not detach it from the list) we cause corruption of the path list (of which it is a member), and get a kernel crash. The simplest solution is to not free an existing path -- just leave it in the list as-is (i.e., with its valid flag cleared). Thanks to Yossi Etigin of Voltaire for identifying the problem flow which caused the kernel crash. Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Moni Shua <monis@voltaire.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c index 0bd2a4ff0842..353c13b91e8f 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c @@ -660,8 +660,12 @@ static void unicast_arp_send(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, path = __path_find(dev, phdr->hwaddr + 4); if (!path || !path->valid) { - if (!path) + int new_path = 0; + + if (!path) { path = path_rec_create(dev, phdr->hwaddr + 4); + new_path = 1; + } if (path) { /* put pseudoheader back on for next time */ skb_push(skb, sizeof *phdr); @@ -669,7 +673,8 @@ static void unicast_arp_send(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, if (!path->query && path_rec_start(dev, path)) { spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); - path_free(dev, path); + if (new_path) + path_free(dev, path); return; } else __path_add(dev, path); |