This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bonding: fix bonding_masters race condition in bond unloading to the 3.4-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: bonding-fix-bonding_masters-race-condition-in-bond-unloading.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1d0ca04f861a39a45e1dd3e5533aa88a0aff4d8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx" <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 00:54:38 +0000 Subject: bonding: fix bonding_masters race condition in bond unloading From: "nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx" <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 69b0216ac255f523556fa3d4ff030d857eaaa37f ] While the bonding module is unloading, it is considered that after rtnl_link_unregister all bond devices are destroyed but since no synchronization mechanism exists, a new bond device can be created via bonding_masters before unregister_pernet_subsys which would lead to multiple problems (e.g. NULL pointer dereference, wrong RIP, list corruption). This patch fixes the issue by removing any bond devices left in the netns after bonding_masters is removed from sysfs. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -4864,9 +4864,18 @@ static int __net_init bond_net_init(stru static void __net_exit bond_net_exit(struct net *net) { struct bond_net *bn = net_generic(net, bond_net_id); + struct bonding *bond, *tmp_bond; + LIST_HEAD(list); bond_destroy_sysfs(bn); bond_destroy_proc_dir(bn); + + /* Kill off any bonds created after unregistering bond rtnl ops */ + rtnl_lock(); + list_for_each_entry_safe(bond, tmp_bond, &bn->dev_list, bond_list) + unregister_netdevice_queue(bond->dev, &list); + unregister_netdevice_many(&list); + rtnl_unlock(); } static struct pernet_operations bond_net_ops = { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/bonding-iff_bonding-is-not-stripped-on-enslave-failure.patch queue-3.4/bonding-fix-bonding_masters-race-condition-in-bond-unloading.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html