3.16.61-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 36dc621ceca1be3ec885aeade5fdafbbcc452a6d upstream. batman-adv is creating special debugfs directories in the init net_namespace for each valid hard-interface (net_device). But it is possible to rename a net_device to a completely different name then the original one. It can therefore happen that a user registers a new net_device which gets the name "wlan0" assigned by default. batman-adv is also adding a new directory under $debugfs/batman-adv/ with the name "wlan0". The user then decides to rename this device to "wl_pri" and registers a different device. The kernel may now decide to use the name "wlan0" again for this new device. batman-adv will detect it as a valid net_device and tries to create a directory with the name "wlan0" under $debugfs/batman-adv/. But there already exists one with this name under this path and thus this fails. batman-adv will detect a problem and rollback the registering of this device. batman-adv must therefore take care of renaming the debugfs directories for hard-interfaces whenever it detects such a net_device rename. Fixes: 5bc7c1eb44f2 ("batman-adv: add debugfs structure for information per interface") Reported-by: John Soros <sorosj@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/batman-adv/debugfs.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ net/batman-adv/debugfs.h | 6 ++++++ net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+) --- a/net/batman-adv/debugfs.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/debugfs.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #include "main.h" +#include <linux/dcache.h> #include <linux/debugfs.h> #include "debugfs.h" @@ -486,6 +487,25 @@ out: } /** + * batadv_debugfs_rename_hardif() - Fix debugfs path for renamed hardif + * @hard_iface: hard interface which was renamed + */ +void batadv_debugfs_rename_hardif(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface) +{ + const char *name = hard_iface->net_dev->name; + struct dentry *dir; + struct dentry *d; + + dir = hard_iface->debug_dir; + if (!dir) + return; + + d = debugfs_rename(dir->d_parent, dir, dir->d_parent, name); + if (!d) + pr_err("Can't rename debugfs dir to %s\n", name); +} + +/** * batadv_debugfs_del_hardif - delete the base directory for a hard interface * in debugfs. * @hard_iface: hard interface which is deleted. --- a/net/batman-adv/debugfs.h +++ b/net/batman-adv/debugfs.h @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ void batadv_debugfs_destroy(void); int batadv_debugfs_add_meshif(struct net_device *dev); void batadv_debugfs_del_meshif(struct net_device *dev); int batadv_debugfs_add_hardif(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface); +void batadv_debugfs_rename_hardif(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface); void batadv_debugfs_del_hardif(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface); #else @@ -55,6 +56,11 @@ int batadv_debugfs_add_hardif(struct bat } static inline +void batadv_debugfs_rename_hardif(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface) +{ +} + +static inline void batadv_debugfs_del_hardif(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface) { } --- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c @@ -695,6 +695,9 @@ static int batadv_hard_if_event(struct n if (hard_iface == primary_if) batadv_primary_if_update_addr(bat_priv, NULL); break; + case NETDEV_CHANGENAME: + batadv_debugfs_rename_hardif(hard_iface); + break; default: break; }