From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Eric W. Biderman and Michal Hocko reported various memory corruptions that we suspected to be related to a LIST head located on stack, that was manipulated after thread left function frame (and eventually exited, so its stack was freed and reused). Eric Dumazet suggested the problem was probably coming from commit 443457242beb (net: factorize sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice_many) This patch fixes __dev_close() and dev_close() to properly deinit their respective LIST_HEAD(single) before exiting. References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/16/304 References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/14/223 Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Reported-by: Eric W. Biderman <ebiderman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> CC: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@xxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Eric W. Biderman <ebiderman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/dev.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 8e726cb..a18c164 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1280,10 +1280,13 @@ static int __dev_close_many(struct list_head *head) static int __dev_close(struct net_device *dev) { + int retval; LIST_HEAD(single); list_add(&dev->unreg_list, &single); - return __dev_close_many(&single); + retval = __dev_close_many(&single); + list_del(&single); + return retval; } int dev_close_many(struct list_head *head) @@ -1325,7 +1328,7 @@ int dev_close(struct net_device *dev) list_add(&dev->unreg_list, &single); dev_close_many(&single); - + list_del(&single); return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_close); -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>