netdev - Re: [PATCH net] dsa: fix promiscuity leak on slave dev open error

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Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:04:01 +0200
From:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:	giladb@...hip.com
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] dsa: fix promiscuity leak on slave dev open error

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 04:50:13PM +0300, giladb@...hip.com wrote:
> From: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
> 
> DSA master netdev promiscuity counter was not being properly
> decremented on slave device open error path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
> CC: Gilad Ben-Yossef <giladb@...hip.com>
> CC: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> CC: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> CC: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> CC: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> CC: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>

Hi Gilad

Acked-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

FYI: I grep'ed the whole kernel. This seems to be the only place 0 is
passed to dev_set_promiscuity(), i.e. the same bug is not present
anywhere else.

Thanks
	Andrew

> ---
>  net/dsa/slave.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/dsa/slave.c b/net/dsa/slave.c
> index 04ffad3..0917123 100644
> --- a/net/dsa/slave.c
> +++ b/net/dsa/slave.c
> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static int dsa_slave_open(struct net_device *dev)
>  
>  clear_promisc:
>  	if (dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC)
> -		dev_set_promiscuity(master, 0);
> +		dev_set_promiscuity(master, -1);
>  clear_allmulti:
>  	if (dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI)
>  		dev_set_allmulti(master, -1);
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
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