3.6.11.6 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Johannes Berg [ Upstream commit c8aa22db0112f640ac6631347f850879c621840b ] Since Eric's commit efe117ab8 ("Speedup ieee80211_remove_interfaces") there's a bug in mac80211 when it unregisters with AP_VLAN interfaces up. If the AP_VLAN interface was registered after the AP it belongs to (which is the typical case) and then we get into this code path, unregister_netdevice_many() will crash because it isn't prepared to deal with interfaces being closed in the middle of it. Exactly this happens though, because we iterate the list, find the AP master this AP_VLAN belongs to and dev_close() the dependent VLANs. After this, unregister_netdevice_many() won't pick up the fact that the AP_VLAN is already down and will do it again, causing a crash. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [2.6.33+] Cc: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- net/mac80211/iface.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c index c93d395..9217a94 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c @@ -1521,6 +1521,15 @@ void ieee80211_remove_interfaces(struct ieee80211_local *local) ASSERT_RTNL(); + /* + * Close all AP_VLAN interfaces first, as otherwise they + * might be closed while the AP interface they belong to + * is closed, causing unregister_netdevice_many() to crash. + */ + list_for_each_entry(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) + if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN) + dev_close(sdata->dev); + mutex_lock(&local->iflist_mtx); list_for_each_entry_safe(sdata, tmp, &local->interfaces, list) { list_del(&sdata->list); -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/