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| author |   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2021-01-06 10:40:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2021-01-08 19:27:41 -0800 |
| commit | 766b0515d5bec4b780750773ed3009b148df8c0a (patch) | |
| tree | 39c5fc95f6407f5bf134df340f64219e0b5fba89 /net | |
| parent | net: make free_netdev() more lenient with unregistering devices (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-766b0515d5bec4b780750773ed3009b148df8c0a.tar.xz linux-dev-766b0515d5bec4b780750773ed3009b148df8c0a.zip | |
net: make sure devices go through netdev_wait_all_refs
If register_netdevice() fails at the very last stage - the
notifier call - some subsystems may have already seen it and
grabbed a reference. struct net_device can't be freed right
away without calling netdev_wait_all_refs().
Now that we have a clean interface in form of dev->needs_free_netdev
and lenient free_netdev() we can undo what commit 93ee31f14f6f ("[NET]:
Fix free_netdev on register_netdev failure.") has done and complete
the unregistration path by bringing the net_set_todo() call back.
After registration fails user is still expected to explicitly
free the net_device, so make sure ->needs_free_netdev is cleared,
otherwise rolling back the registration will cause the old double
free for callers who release rtnl_lock before the free.
This also solves the problem of priv_destructor not being called
on notifier error.
net_set_todo() will be moved back into unregister_netdevice_queue()
in a follow up.
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index adde93cbca9f..0071a11a6dc3 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -10077,17 +10077,11 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev) ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_REGISTER, dev); ret = notifier_to_errno(ret); if (ret) { + /* Expect explicit free_netdev() on failure */ + dev->needs_free_netdev = false; rollback_registered(dev); - rcu_barrier(); - - dev->reg_state = NETREG_UNREGISTERED; - /* We should put the kobject that hold in - * netdev_unregister_kobject(), otherwise - * the net device cannot be freed when - * driver calls free_netdev(), because the - * kobject is being hold. - */ - kobject_put(&dev->dev.kobj); + net_set_todo(dev); + goto out; } /* * Prevent userspace races by waiting until the network |