This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: count hw_addr syncs so that unsync works properly.
to the 3.8-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:
net-count-hw_addr-syncs-so-that-unsync-works-properly.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5c2f9f9cb418db7d27cd630bf6ae37e651bf892a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 17:10:07 -0400
Subject: net: count hw_addr syncs so that unsync works properly.
From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 4543fbefe6e06a9e40d9f2b28d688393a299f079 ]
A few drivers use dev_uc_sync/unsync to synchronize the
address lists from master down to slave/lower devices. In
some cases (bond/team) a single address list is synched down
to multiple devices. At the time of unsync, we have a leak
in these lower devices, because "synced" is treated as a
boolean and the address will not be unsynced for anything after
the first device/call.
Treat "synced" as a count (same as refcount) and allow all
unsync calls to work.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 +-
net/core/dev_addr_lists.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -208,9 +208,9 @@ struct netdev_hw_addr {
#define NETDEV_HW_ADDR_T_SLAVE 3
#define NETDEV_HW_ADDR_T_UNICAST 4
#define NETDEV_HW_ADDR_T_MULTICAST 5
- bool synced;
bool global_use;
int refcount;
+ int synced;
struct rcu_head rcu_head;
};
--- a/net/core/dev_addr_lists.c
+++ b/net/core/dev_addr_lists.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static int __hw_addr_create_ex(struct ne
ha->type = addr_type;
ha->refcount = 1;
ha->global_use = global;
- ha->synced = false;
+ ha->synced = 0;
list_add_tail_rcu(&ha->list, &list->list);
list->count++;
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ int __hw_addr_sync(struct netdev_hw_addr
addr_len, ha->type);
if (err)
break;
- ha->synced = true;
+ ha->synced++;
ha->refcount++;
} else if (ha->refcount == 1) {
__hw_addr_del(to_list, ha->addr, addr_len, ha->type);
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ void __hw_addr_unsync(struct netdev_hw_a
if (ha->synced) {
__hw_addr_del(to_list, ha->addr,
addr_len, ha->type);
- ha->synced = false;
+ ha->synced--;
__hw_addr_del(from_list, ha->addr,
addr_len, ha->type);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/net-count-hw_addr-syncs-so-that-unsync-works-properly.patch
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