This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bridge: netlink: register netdevice before executing changelink 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: bridge-netlink-register-netdevice-before-executing-changelink.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 Thu Oct 5 10:28:31 CEST 2017 From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:59:28 +0300 Subject: bridge: netlink: register netdevice before executing changelink From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5b8d5429daa05bebef6ffd3297df3b502cc6f184 ] Peter reported a kernel oops when executing the following command: $ ip link add name test type bridge vlan_default_pvid 1 [13634.939408] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000190 [13634.939436] IP: __vlan_add+0x73/0x5f0 [...] [13634.939783] Call Trace: [13634.939791] ? pcpu_next_unpop+0x3b/0x50 [13634.939801] ? pcpu_alloc+0x3d2/0x680 [13634.939810] ? br_vlan_add+0x135/0x1b0 [13634.939820] ? __br_vlan_set_default_pvid.part.28+0x204/0x2b0 [13634.939834] ? br_changelink+0x120/0x4e0 [13634.939844] ? br_dev_newlink+0x50/0x70 [13634.939854] ? rtnl_newlink+0x5f5/0x8a0 [13634.939864] ? rtnl_newlink+0x176/0x8a0 [13634.939874] ? mem_cgroup_commit_charge+0x7c/0x4e0 [13634.939886] ? rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xe1/0x220 [13634.939896] ? lookup_fast+0x52/0x370 [13634.939905] ? rtnl_newlink+0x8a0/0x8a0 [13634.939915] ? netlink_rcv_skb+0xa1/0xc0 [13634.939925] ? rtnetlink_rcv+0x24/0x30 [13634.939934] ? netlink_unicast+0x177/0x220 [13634.939944] ? netlink_sendmsg+0x2fe/0x3b0 [13634.939954] ? _copy_from_user+0x39/0x40 [13634.939964] ? sock_sendmsg+0x30/0x40 [13634.940159] ? ___sys_sendmsg+0x29d/0x2b0 [13634.940326] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xdf/0x230 [13634.940478] ? mem_cgroup_commit_charge+0x7c/0x4e0 [13634.940592] ? mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x76/0x1a0 [13634.940701] ? __handle_mm_fault+0xdb9/0x10b0 [13634.940809] ? __sys_sendmsg+0x51/0x90 [13634.940917] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad The problem is that the bridge's VLAN group is created after setting the default PVID, when registering the netdevice and executing its ndo_init(). Fix this by changing the order of both operations, so that br_changelink() is only processed after the netdevice is registered, when the VLAN group is already initialized. Fixes: b6677449dff6 ("bridge: netlink: call br_changelink() during br_dev_newlink()") Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Peter V. Saveliev <peter@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Peter V. Saveliev <peter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c @@ -1098,11 +1098,14 @@ static int br_dev_newlink(struct net *sr spin_unlock_bh(&br->lock); } - err = br_changelink(dev, tb, data); + err = register_netdevice(dev); if (err) return err; - return register_netdevice(dev); + err = br_changelink(dev, tb, data); + if (err) + unregister_netdevice(dev); + return err; } static size_t br_get_size(const struct net_device *brdev) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/bridge-netlink-register-netdevice-before-executing-changelink.patch