netdev - Re: [PATCH][VLAN] Lost rtnl_unlock() in vlan

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Date:	Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:10:35 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	xemul@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][VLAN] Lost rtnl_unlock() in vlan_ioctl()

David Miller wrote:
> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:59:24 +0100
> 
>> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>>> The SET_VLAN_NAME_TYPE_CMD command w/o CAP_NET_ADMIN capability
>>> doesn't release the rtnl lock.
>>
>> Thanks Pavel. I somehow recall that we already fixed this
>> one, but can't find the patch :) Dave, please apply.
> 
> I think we even added this bug to -stable, or something like
> that, didn't we?  Yikes...


No, I mixed those two patches up as well. The bug was introduced
with the vlan_netlink stuff, the -stable patch fixed an invalid
return value, but still properly dropped the lock.

This patch should of course go in -stable anyway.


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