This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hsr: Handle failures in module init to the 6.8-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: hsr-handle-failures-in-module-init.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e1d69b9872c31cd6d179ac5e26105557273d4f32 Author: Felix Maurer <fmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 15 13:04:52 2024 +0100 hsr: Handle failures in module init [ Upstream commit 3cf28cd492308e5f63ed00b29ea03ca016264376 ] A failure during registration of the netdev notifier was not handled at all. A failure during netlink initialization did not unregister the netdev notifier. Handle failures of netdev notifier registration and netlink initialization. Both functions should only return negative values on failure and thereby lead to the hsr module not being loaded. Fixes: f421436a591d ("net/hsr: Add support for the High-availability Seamless Redundancy protocol (HSRv0)") Signed-off-by: Felix Maurer <fmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3ce097c15e3f7ace98fc7fd9bcbf299f092e63d1.1710504184.git.fmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/hsr/hsr_main.c b/net/hsr/hsr_main.c index cb83c8feb7465..9756e657bab97 100644 --- a/net/hsr/hsr_main.c +++ b/net/hsr/hsr_main.c @@ -148,14 +148,21 @@ static struct notifier_block hsr_nb = { static int __init hsr_init(void) { - int res; + int err; BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct hsr_tag) != HSR_HLEN); - register_netdevice_notifier(&hsr_nb); - res = hsr_netlink_init(); + err = register_netdevice_notifier(&hsr_nb); + if (err) + return err; + + err = hsr_netlink_init(); + if (err) { + unregister_netdevice_notifier(&hsr_nb); + return err; + } - return res; + return 0; } static void __exit hsr_exit(void)