netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalance in rt6_fill

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Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:22:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	greearb@...delatech.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	davej@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalance in
 rt6_fill_node()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:53:52 +0200

> Commit f2c31e32b378 (net: fix NULL dereferences in check_peer_redir() )
> added a regression in rt6_fill_node(), leading to rcu_read_lock()
> imbalance.
> 
> Thats because NLA_PUT() can make a jump to nla_put_failure label.
> 
> Fix this by using nla_put()
> 
> Many thanks to Ben Greear for his help
> 
> Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Great work everyone.

I'll apply this and queue it up for stable soon.

In other news, I think the days of hidden gotos from the NLA macros
should be over.  I'll work in net-next to redo this so that the
gotos must be explicitly coded and therefore be visible when people
audit these routines.

Thanks!
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