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 3.4-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: net-count-hw_addr-syncs-so-that-unsync-works-properly.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 e1f62fd070a7ee124d6986b8792f14019e3e15ff 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 @@ -232,9 +232,9 @@ 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 @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static int __hw_addr_add_ex(struct netde 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++; return 0; @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ 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); @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ 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-3.4/net-count-hw_addr-syncs-so-that-unsync-works-properly.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