This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: clean up dev_snmp6 proc entry when we fail to initialize inet6_dev to the 4.2-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: ipv6-clean-up-dev_snmp6-proc-entry-when-we-fail-to-initialize-inet6_dev.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Nov 17 14:34:38 PST 2015 From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 14:47:53 +0100 Subject: ipv6: clean up dev_snmp6 proc entry when we fail to initialize inet6_dev From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2a189f9e57650e9f310ddf4aad75d66c1233a064 ] In ipv6_add_dev, when addrconf_sysctl_register fails, we do not clean up the dev_snmp6 entry that we have already registered for this device. Call snmp6_unregister_dev in this case. Fixes: a317a2f19da7d ("ipv6: fail early when creating netdev named all or default") Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ static struct inet6_dev *ipv6_add_dev(st if (err) { ipv6_mc_destroy_dev(ndev); del_timer(&ndev->regen_timer); + snmp6_unregister_dev(ndev); goto err_release; } /* protected by rtnl_lock */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.2/ipv6-clean-up-dev_snmp6-proc-entry-when-we-fail-to-initialize-inet6_dev.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