Commit 30837960 authored by Francesco Ruggeri's avatar Francesco Ruggeri Committed by David S. Miller
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macvlan: fix failure during registration v3



If macvlan_common_newlink fails in register_netdevice after macvlan_init
then it decrements port->count twice, first in macvlan_uninit (from
register_netdevice or rollback_registered) and then again in
macvlan_common_newlink.
A similar problem may exist in the ipvlan driver.
This patch consolidates modifications to port->count into macvlan_init
and macvlan_uninit (thanks to Eric Biederman for suggesting this approach).

v3: remove macvtap specific bits.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrancesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@arista.com>
Acked-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 713d4ddc
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@@ -795,6 +795,7 @@ static int macvlan_init(struct net_device *dev)
{
	struct macvlan_dev *vlan = netdev_priv(dev);
	const struct net_device *lowerdev = vlan->lowerdev;
	struct macvlan_port *port = vlan->port;

	dev->state		= (dev->state & ~MACVLAN_STATE_MASK) |
				  (lowerdev->state & MACVLAN_STATE_MASK);
@@ -812,6 +813,8 @@ static int macvlan_init(struct net_device *dev)
	if (!vlan->pcpu_stats)
		return -ENOMEM;

	port->count += 1;

	return 0;
}

@@ -1312,10 +1315,9 @@ int macvlan_common_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
			return err;
	}

	port->count += 1;
	err = register_netdevice(dev);
	if (err < 0)
		goto destroy_port;
		return err;

	dev->priv_flags |= IFF_MACVLAN;
	err = netdev_upper_dev_link(lowerdev, dev);
@@ -1330,10 +1332,6 @@ int macvlan_common_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,

unregister_netdev:
	unregister_netdevice(dev);
destroy_port:
	port->count -= 1;
	if (!port->count)
		macvlan_port_destroy(lowerdev);

	return err;
}