This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ifb: fix oops when loading the ifb failed to the 3.0-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: ifb-fix-oops-when-loading-the-ifb-failed.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4a398717fafa6f2308136913c2b5f90eed305cd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dingtianhong <dingtianhong@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:04:06 +0800 Subject: ifb: fix oops when loading the ifb failed From: dingtianhong <dingtianhong@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f2966cd5691058b8674a20766525bedeaea9cbcf ] If __rtnl_link_register() return faild when loading the ifb, it will take the wrong path and get oops, so fix it just like dummy. Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ifb.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ifb.c +++ b/drivers/net/ifb.c @@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ static int __init ifb_init_module(void) rtnl_lock(); err = __rtnl_link_register(&ifb_link_ops); + if (err < 0) + goto out; for (i = 0; i < numifbs && !err; i++) { err = ifb_init_one(i); @@ -258,6 +260,8 @@ static int __init ifb_init_module(void) } if (err) __rtnl_link_unregister(&ifb_link_ops); + +out: rtnl_unlock(); return err; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dingtianhong@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.0/dummy-fix-oops-when-loading-the-dummy-failed.patch queue-3.0/ipv6-mcast-always-hold-idev-lock-before-mca_lock.patch queue-3.0/ifb-fix-oops-when-loading-the-ifb-failed.patch queue-3.0/ifb-fix-rcu_sched-self-detected-stalls.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