linux/net/llc
Eric Dumazet 35d9b0c906 llc: fix a device refcount imbalance
Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 12:23 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 09:19 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
>
> > Hmm..
> >
> > If somebody can explain why RTNL is held in arp_ioctl() (and therefore
> > in arp_req_delete()), we might first remove RTNL use in arp_ioctl() so
> > that your patch can be applied.
> >
> > Right now it is not good, because RTNL wont be necessarly held when you
> > are going to call arp_invalidate() ?
>
> While doing this analysis, I found a refcount bug in llc, I'll send a
> patch for net-2.6

Oh well, of course I must first fix the bug in net-2.6, and wait David
pull the fix in net-next-2.6 before sending this rcu conversion.

Note: this patch should be sent to stable teams (2.6.34 and up)

[PATCH net-2.6] llc: fix a device refcount imbalance

commit abf9d537fe (llc: add support for SO_BINDTODEVICE) added one
refcount imbalance in llc_ui_bind(), because dev_getbyhwaddr() doesnt
take a reference on device, while dev_get_by_index() does.

Fix this using RCU locking. And since an RCU conversion will be done for
2.6.38 for dev_getbyhwaddr(), put the rcu_read_lock/unlock exactly at
their final place.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-08 09:58:44 -08:00
..
af_llc.c llc: fix a device refcount imbalance 2010-12-08 09:58:44 -08:00
Kconfig
llc_c_ac.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
llc_c_ev.c net: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-03-05 20:47:47 -08:00
llc_c_st.c
llc_conn.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
llc_core.c llc: cleanup: remove dead code from llc_init() 2010-03-24 13:34:08 -07:00
llc_if.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
llc_input.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
llc_output.c llc: use dev_hard_header 2009-12-26 20:38:23 -08:00
llc_pdu.c [LLC]: skb allocation size for responses 2008-03-31 21:02:47 -07:00
llc_proc.c llc: convert llc_sap_list to RCU 2009-12-26 20:46:28 -08:00
llc_s_ac.c [LLC]: skb allocation size for responses 2008-03-31 21:02:47 -07:00
llc_s_ev.c
llc_s_st.c [NET] LLC: Fix whitespace errors. 2007-02-10 23:19:53 -08:00
llc_sap.c net: Fix FDDI and TR config checks in ipv4 arp and LLC. 2010-05-10 04:59:07 -07:00
llc_station.c net/llc: storing negative error codes in unsigned short 2010-09-16 22:38:23 -07:00
Makefile [LLC]: Add sysctl support for the LLC timeouts 2005-09-22 04:30:44 -03:00
sysctl_net_llc.c sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code 2009-11-12 02:05:06 -08:00