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Message-ID: <1335942160.22133.51.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 09:02:40 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] ipv6: Fix potential hang in mif6_add
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 11:39 +0530, Krishna Kumar wrote:
> Fix a potential "waiting for %s to become free" hang.
> mif6_add() called ip6mr_reg_vif to allocate/register a
> netdevice, which also took an extra reference on the
> device. On error, mif6_add should drop this reference
> before unregistering the device.
>
> (untested, noticed from code walkthrough)
>
> Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
> ---
> net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff -ruNp org/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c new/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
> --- org/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c 2012-04-19 09:03:34.000000000 +0530
> +++ new/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c 2012-05-02 10:51:01.953110994 +0530
> @@ -937,8 +937,8 @@ static int mif6_add(struct net *net, str
> return -ENOBUFS;
> err = dev_set_allmulti(dev, 1);
> if (err) {
> - unregister_netdevice(dev);
> dev_put(dev);
> + unregister_netdevice(dev);
> return err;
> }
> break;
>
This makes no difference to dev_put() before or after
unregister_netdevice() because we hold RTNL in mif6_add()
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