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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-02-17 22:54:38 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-02-18 11:49:35 -0800
commitf87e6f47933e3ebeced9bb12615e830a72cedce4 (patch)
treec664fa9d09f0d946270c5a3cfb821a0bc95f3d8f /net
parent214f45c91bbda8321d9676f1197238e4663edcbb (diff)
net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD
Eric W. Biderman and Michal Hocko reported various memory corruptions that we suspected to be related to a LIST head located on stack, that was manipulated after thread left function frame (and eventually exited, so its stack was freed and reused). Eric Dumazet suggested the problem was probably coming from commit 443457242beb (net: factorize sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice_many) This patch fixes __dev_close() and dev_close() to properly deinit their respective LIST_HEAD(single) before exiting. References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/16/304 References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/14/223 Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Tested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reported-by: Eric W. Biderman <ebiderman@xmission.com> Tested-by: Eric W. Biderman <ebiderman@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 8e726cb47ed..a18c1643ea9 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1280,10 +1280,13 @@ static int __dev_close_many(struct list_head *head)
static int __dev_close(struct net_device *dev)
{
+ int retval;
LIST_HEAD(single);
list_add(&dev->unreg_list, &single);
- return __dev_close_many(&single);
+ retval = __dev_close_many(&single);
+ list_del(&single);
+ return retval;
}
int dev_close_many(struct list_head *head)
@@ -1325,7 +1328,7 @@ int dev_close(struct net_device *dev)
list_add(&dev->unreg_list, &single);
dev_close_many(&single);
-
+ list_del(&single);
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_close);