This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: netdevsim: fix nsim_pp_hold_write() to the 6.12-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: net-netdevsim-fix-nsim_pp_hold_write.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 161a729a945ac00548a45198395329845c196d73 Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Dec 16 08:37:03 2024 +0000 net: netdevsim: fix nsim_pp_hold_write() [ Upstream commit b9b8301d369b4c876de5255dbf067b19ba88ac71 ] nsim_pp_hold_write() has two problems: 1) It may return with rtnl held, as found by syzbot. 2) Its return value does not propagate an error if any. Fixes: 1580cbcbfe77 ("net: netdevsim: add some fake page pool use") Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241216083703.1859921-1-edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c b/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c index 017a6102be0a..1b29d1d794a2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c @@ -596,10 +596,10 @@ nsim_pp_hold_write(struct file *file, const char __user *data, page_pool_put_full_page(ns->page->pp, ns->page, false); ns->page = NULL; } - rtnl_unlock(); exit: - return count; + rtnl_unlock(); + return ret; } static const struct file_operations nsim_pp_hold_fops = {