Commit f87e6f47 authored Feb 17, 2011 by Linus Torvalds Committed by David S. Miller Feb 18, 2011

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
44345724 (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>

parent 214f45c9

net/core/dev.c

+5 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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);

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