[PATCH 2/2] net: deinit automatic LIST_HEAD

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Feb 18 2011 - 03:59:33 EST


commit 9b5e383c11b08784 (net: Introduce
unregister_netdevice_many()) left an active LIST_HEAD() in
rollback_registered(), with possible memory corruption.

Even if device is freed without touching its unreg_list (and therefore
touching the previous memory location holding LISTE_HEAD(single), better
close the bug for good, since its really subtle.

(Same fix for default_device_exit_batch() for completeness)

Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Eric W. Biderman <ebiderman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CC: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Eric W. Biderman <ebiderman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> [.33+]
---
net/core/dev.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index a18c164..8ae6631 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5066,6 +5066,7 @@ static void rollback_registered(struct net_device *dev)

list_add(&dev->unreg_list, &single);
rollback_registered_many(&single);
+ list_del(&single);
}

unsigned long netdev_fix_features(unsigned long features, const char *name)
@@ -6219,6 +6220,7 @@ static void __net_exit default_device_exit_batch(struct list_head *net_list)
}
}
unregister_netdevice_many(&dev_kill_list);
+ list_del(&dev_kill_list);
rtnl_unlock();
}



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