This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
batman-adv: set .owner to THIS_MODULE
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
batman-adv-set-.owner-to-this_module.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Tue Nov 23 01:39:02 PM CET 2021
From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 13:39:35 +0100
Subject: batman-adv: set .owner to THIS_MODULE
To: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Taehee Yoo <ap420073@xxxxxxxxx>, Simon Wunderlich <sw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20211120123939.260723-8-sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 14a2e551faea53d45bc11629a9dac88f88950ca7 upstream.
If THIS_MODULE is not set, the module would be removed while debugfs is
being used.
It eventually makes kernel panic.
Fixes: c6c8fea29769 ("net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol")
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ bp: 4.4 backported: switch to old filename. ]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/batman-adv/debugfs.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/batman-adv/debugfs.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/debugfs.c
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ static const struct file_operations bata
.read = batadv_log_read,
.poll = batadv_log_poll,
.llseek = no_llseek,
+ .owner = THIS_MODULE,
};
static int batadv_debug_log_setup(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/batman-adv-consider-fragmentation-for-needed_headroom.patch
queue-4.4/ath9k-fix-potential-interrupt-storm-on-queue-reset.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-set-.owner-to-this_module.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-mcast-fix-duplicate-mcast-packets-from-bla-backbone-to-mesh.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-fix-multicast-tt-issues-with-bogus-roam-flags.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-mcast-fix-duplicate-mcast-packets-in-bla-backbone-from-lan.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-reserve-needed_-room-for-fragments.patch
queue-4.4/net-batman-adv-fix-error-handling.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-keep-fragments-equally-sized.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-avoid-warn_on-timing-related-checks.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-prevent-duplicated-softif_vlan-entry.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-don-t-always-reallocate-the-fragmentation-skb-head.patch
queue-4.4/batman-adv-mcast-fix-duplicate-mcast-packets-in-bla-backbone-from-mesh.patch
