This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
IB/ipoib: rtnl_unlock can not come after free_netdev
to the 3.18-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:
ib-ipoib-rtnl_unlock-can-not-come-after-free_netdev.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 10:58:04 CEST 2017
From: Feras Daoud <ferasda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:47:24 +0200
Subject: IB/ipoib: rtnl_unlock can not come after free_netdev
From: Feras Daoud <ferasda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 89a3987ab7a923c047c6dec008e60ad6f41fac22 ]
The ipoib_vlan_add function calls rtnl_unlock after free_netdev,
rtnl_unlock not only releases the lock, but also calls netdev_run_todo.
The latter function browses the net_todo_list array and completes the
unregistration of all its net_device instances. If we call free_netdev
before rtnl_unlock, then netdev_run_todo call over the freed device causes
panic.
To fix, move rtnl_unlock call before free_netdev call.
Fixes: 9baa0b036410 ("IB/ipoib: Add rtnl_link_ops support")
Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Feras Daoud <ferasda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Erez Shitrit <erezsh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c
@@ -162,11 +162,11 @@ int ipoib_vlan_add(struct net_device *pd
out:
up_write(&ppriv->vlan_rwsem);
+ rtnl_unlock();
+
if (result)
free_netdev(priv->dev);
- rtnl_unlock();
-
return result;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ferasda@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/ib-ipoib-replace-list_del-of-the-neigh-list-with-list_del_init.patch
queue-3.18/ib-ipoib-rtnl_unlock-can-not-come-after-free_netdev.patch
queue-3.18/ib-ipoib-fix-deadlock-over-vlan_mutex.patch