This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
neighbour: populate neigh_parms on alloc before calling ndo_neigh_setup
to the 3.10-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:
neighbour-populate-neigh_parms-on-alloc-before-calling-ndo_neigh_setup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6956fef14ca8a96fe55e57616525a99173785c22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 19:07:38 +0200
Subject: neighbour: populate neigh_parms on alloc before calling ndo_neigh_setup
From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 63134803a6369dcf7dddf7f0d5e37b9566b308d2 ]
dev->ndo_neigh_setup() might need some of the values of neigh_parms, so
populate them before calling it.
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/neighbour.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -1445,16 +1445,18 @@ struct neigh_parms *neigh_parms_alloc(st
atomic_set(&p->refcnt, 1);
p->reachable_time =
neigh_rand_reach_time(p->base_reachable_time);
+ dev_hold(dev);
+ p->dev = dev;
+ write_pnet(&p->net, hold_net(net));
+ p->sysctl_table = NULL;
if (ops->ndo_neigh_setup && ops->ndo_neigh_setup(dev, p)) {
+ release_net(net);
+ dev_put(dev);
kfree(p);
return NULL;
}
- dev_hold(dev);
- p->dev = dev;
- write_pnet(&p->net, hold_net(net));
- p->sysctl_table = NULL;
write_lock_bh(&tbl->lock);
p->next = tbl->parms.next;
tbl->parms.next = p;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/neighbour-populate-neigh_parms-on-alloc-before-calling-ndo_neigh_setup.patch
queue-3.10/bonding-modify-only-neigh_parms-owned-by-us.patch
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