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authorNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>2013-09-19 09:02:35 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-09-19 14:15:53 -0400
commitd0fe8c888b1fd1a2f84b9962cabcb98a70988aec (patch)
tree0d148e7dfea45c04842617aa32c9be50235d606a /net/core/netpoll.c
parentc194992cbe71c20bb3623a566af8d11b0bfaa721 (diff)
netpoll: fix NULL pointer dereference in netpoll_cleanup
I've been hitting a NULL ptr deref while using netconsole because the np->dev check and the pointer manipulation in netpoll_cleanup are done without rtnl and the following sequence happens when having a netconsole over a vlan and we remove the vlan while disabling the netconsole: CPU 1 CPU2 removes vlan and calls the notifier enters store_enabled(), calls netdev_cleanup which checks np->dev and then waits for rtnl executes the netconsole netdev release notifier making np->dev == NULL and releases rtnl continues to dereference a member of np->dev which at this point is == NULL Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/netpoll.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/netpoll.c9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index c3c7b27c112d..fc75c9e461b8 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -1284,15 +1284,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__netpoll_free_async);
1284 1284
1285void netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np) 1285void netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np)
1286{ 1286{
1287 if (!np->dev)
1288 return;
1289
1290 rtnl_lock(); 1287 rtnl_lock();
1288 if (!np->dev)
1289 goto out;
1291 __netpoll_cleanup(np); 1290 __netpoll_cleanup(np);
1292 rtnl_unlock();
1293
1294 dev_put(np->dev); 1291 dev_put(np->dev);
1295 np->dev = NULL; 1292 np->dev = NULL;
1293out:
1294 rtnl_unlock();
1296} 1295}
1297EXPORT_SYMBOL(netpoll_cleanup); 1296EXPORT_SYMBOL(netpoll_cleanup);
1298 1297