netdev - [PATCH] bridge: Don't put partly initialized fdb into hash

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Date:	Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:58:08 +0300
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] bridge: Don't put partly initialized fdb into hash

The fdb_create() puts a new fdb into hash with only addr set. This is
not good, since there are callers, that search the hash w/o the lock
and access all the other its fields.

Applies to current netdev tree.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

---

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
index 2872393..88485cc 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
@@ -328,12 +328,12 @@ static struct net_bridge_fdb_entry *fdb_create(struct hlist_head *head,
 	fdb = kmem_cache_alloc(br_fdb_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (fdb) {
 		memcpy(fdb->addr.addr, addr, ETH_ALEN);
-		hlist_add_head_rcu(&fdb->hlist, head);
-
 		fdb->dst = source;
 		fdb->is_local = is_local;
 		fdb->is_static = is_local;
 		fdb->ageing_timer = jiffies;
+
+		hlist_add_head_rcu(&fdb->hlist, head);
 	}
 	return fdb;
 }
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