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author | Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> | 2009-12-08 22:26:02 +0000 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-12-11 15:11:45 -0800 |
commit | e93737b0f0159a61772894943199fd3b6f315641 (patch) | |
tree | feaa10bd2419f2a1bad89bcf4880bc8399339873 /net | |
parent | bbb84619c378414118fd4f1778125cd246c71e53 (diff) | |
download | linux-e93737b0f0159a61772894943199fd3b6f315641.tar.gz |
net: Handle NETREG_UNINITIALIZED devices correctly
Fix two problems: 1. If unregister_netdevice_many() is called with both registered and unregistered devices, rollback_registered_many() bails out when it reaches the first unregistered device. The processing of the prior registered devices is unfinished, and the remaining devices are skipped, and possible registered netdev's are leaked/unregistered. 2. System hangs or panics depending on how the devices are passed, since when netdev_run_todo() runs, some devices were not fully processed. Tested by passing intermingled unregistered and registered vlan devices to unregister_netdevice_many() as follows: 1. dev, fake_dev1, fake_dev2: hangs in run_todo ("unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1.100 to become free. Usage count = 1") 2. fake_dev1, dev, fake_dev2: failure during de-registration and next registration, followed by a vlan driver Oops during subsequent registration. Confirmed that the patch fixes both cases. Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index c36a17aafcf3..6fe7d739e59b 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -4771,21 +4771,23 @@ static void net_set_todo(struct net_device *dev) static void rollback_registered_many(struct list_head *head) { - struct net_device *dev; + struct net_device *dev, *tmp; BUG_ON(dev_boot_phase); ASSERT_RTNL(); - list_for_each_entry(dev, head, unreg_list) { + list_for_each_entry_safe(dev, tmp, head, unreg_list) { /* Some devices call without registering - * for initialization unwind. + * for initialization unwind. Remove those + * devices and proceed with the remaining. */ if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED) { pr_debug("unregister_netdevice: device %s/%p never " "was registered\n", dev->name, dev); WARN_ON(1); - return; + list_del(&dev->unreg_list); + continue; } BUG_ON(dev->reg_state != NETREG_REGISTERED); |