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Point 1:
The unregistering of a network device schedule a netdev_run_todo.
This function calls dev->destructor when it is set and the
destructor calls free_netdev.
Point 2:
In the case of an initialization of a network device the usual code
is:
* alloc_netdev
* register_netdev
-> if this one fails, call free_netdev and exit with error.
Point 3:
In the register_netdevice function at the later state, when the device
is at the registered state, a call to the netdevice_notifiers is made.
If one of the notification falls into an error, a rollback to the
registered state is done using unregister_netdevice.
Conclusion:
When a network device fails to register during initialization because
one network subsystem returned an error during a notification call
chain, the network device is freed twice because of fact 1 and fact 2.
The second free_netdev will be done with an invalid pointer.
Proposed solution:
The following patch move all the code of unregister_netdevice *except*
the call to net_set_todo, to a new function "rollback_registered".
The following functions are changed in this way:
* register_netdevice: calls rollback_registered when a notification fails
* unregister_netdevice: calls rollback_register + net_set_todo, the call
order to net_set_todo is changed because it is the
latest now. Since it justs add an element to a list
that should not break anything.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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| datagram.c | ||
| dev_mcast.c | ||
| dev.c | ||
| dst.c | ||
| ethtool.c | ||
| fib_rules.c | ||
| filter.c | ||
| flow.c | ||
| gen_estimator.c | ||
| gen_stats.c | ||
| iovec.c | ||
| kmap_skb.h | ||
| link_watch.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| neighbour.c | ||
| net_namespace.c | ||
| net-sysfs.c | ||
| net-sysfs.h | ||
| netevent.c | ||
| netpoll.c | ||
| pktgen.c | ||
| request_sock.c | ||
| rtnetlink.c | ||
| scm.c | ||
| skbuff.c | ||
| sock.c | ||
| stream.c | ||
| sysctl_net_core.c | ||
| user_dma.c | ||
| utils.c | ||