This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: dsa: Do not destroy invalid network devices
to the 4.9-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-dsa-do-not-destroy-invalid-network-devices.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Feb 14 17:03:08 PST 2017
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 23:10:13 -0800
Subject: net: dsa: Do not destroy invalid network devices
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 382e1eea2d983cd2343482c6a638f497bb44a636 ]
dsa_slave_create() can fail, and dsa_user_port_unapply() will properly check
for the network device not being NULL before attempting to destroy it. We were
not setting the slave network device as NULL if dsa_slave_create() failed, so
we would later on be calling dsa_slave_destroy() on a now free'd and
unitialized network device, causing crashes in dsa_slave_destroy().
Fixes: 83c0afaec7b7 ("net: dsa: Add new binding implementation")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/dsa/dsa2.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/dsa/dsa2.c
+++ b/net/dsa/dsa2.c
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ static int dsa_user_port_apply(struct de
if (err) {
dev_warn(ds->dev, "Failed to create slave %d: %d\n",
index, err);
+ ds->ports[index].netdev = NULL;
return err;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/net-dsa-do-not-destroy-invalid-network-devices.patch