netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: fix panic if initialization fails

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Message-ID: <23965.1241820621@death.nxdomain.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 08 May 2009 15:10:21 -0700
From:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
To:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
cc:	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: fix panic if initialization fails

Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de> wrote:

>If module initialisation failed (e.g. because the bonding sysfs entry
>cannot be created), kernel panics:
> IP: [<ffffffff8024910a>] destroy_workqueue+0x2d/0x146
>Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff808268c4>] bond_destructor+0x28/0x78
> [<ffffffff80b64471>] netdev_run_todo+0x231/0x25a
> [<ffffffff80b6dbcd>] rtnl_unlock+0x9/0xb
> [<ffffffff81567907>] bonding_init+0x83e/0x84a
>
>Remove the calls to bond_work_cancel_all() and destroy_workqueue();
>both are also called/scheduled via bond_free_all().
>
>bond_destroy_sysfs is unecessary because the sysfs entry has
>not been created in the error case.
>
>Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>

	Looks good to me.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>

	-J


> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |    8 --------
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>index 815191d..56830a4 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>@@ -5199,7 +5199,6 @@ static int __init bonding_init(void)
> {
> 	int i;
> 	int res;
>-	struct bonding *bond;
>
> 	printk(KERN_INFO "%s", version);
>
>@@ -5228,13 +5227,6 @@ static int __init bonding_init(void)
>
> 	goto out;
> err:
>-	list_for_each_entry(bond, &bond_dev_list, bond_list) {
>-		bond_work_cancel_all(bond);
>-		destroy_workqueue(bond->wq);
>-	}
>-
>-	bond_destroy_sysfs();
>-
> 	rtnl_lock();
> 	bond_free_all();
> 	rtnl_unlock();
>-- 
>1.6.0.6
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