This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ip_tunnel: the lack of vti_link_ops' dellink() cause kernel panic to the 3.14-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: ip_tunnel-the-lack-of-vti_link_ops-dellink-cause-kernel-panic.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 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 Sun Dec 14 08:38:06 PST 2014 From: lucien <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:04:11 +0800 Subject: ip_tunnel: the lack of vti_link_ops' dellink() cause kernel panic From: lucien <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 20ea60ca9952bd19d4b0d74719daba305aef5178 ] Now the vti_link_ops do not point the .dellink, for fb tunnel device (ip_vti0), the net_device will be removed as the default .dellink is unregister_netdevice_queue,but the tunnel still in the tunnel list, then if we add a new vti tunnel, in ip_tunnel_find(): hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(t, head, hash_node) { if (local == t->parms.iph.saddr && remote == t->parms.iph.daddr && link == t->parms.link && ==> type == t->dev->type && ip_tunnel_key_match(&t->parms, flags, key)) break; } the panic will happen, cause dev of ip_tunnel *t is null: [ 3835.072977] IP: [<ffffffffa04103fd>] ip_tunnel_find+0x9d/0xc0 [ip_tunnel] [ 3835.073008] PGD b2c21067 PUD b7277067 PMD 0 [ 3835.073008] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP ..... [ 3835.073008] Stack: [ 3835.073008] ffff8800b72d77f0 ffffffffa0411924 ffff8800bb956000 ffff8800b72d78e0 [ 3835.073008] ffff8800b72d78a0 0000000000000000 ffffffffa040d100 ffff8800b72d7858 [ 3835.073008] ffffffffa040b2e3 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [ 3835.073008] Call Trace: [ 3835.073008] [<ffffffffa0411924>] ip_tunnel_newlink+0x64/0x160 [ip_tunnel] [ 3835.073008] [<ffffffffa040b2e3>] vti_newlink+0x43/0x70 [ip_vti] [ 3835.073008] [<ffffffff8150d4da>] rtnl_newlink+0x4fa/0x5f0 [ 3835.073008] [<ffffffff812f68bb>] ? nla_strlcpy+0x5b/0x70 [ 3835.073008] [<ffffffff81508fb0>] ? rtnl_link_ops_get+0x40/0x60 [ 3835.073008] [<ffffffff8150d11f>] ? rtnl_newlink+0x13f/0x5f0 [ 3835.073008] [<ffffffff81509cf4>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xa4/0x270 [ 3835.073008] [<ffffffff8126adf5>] ? sock_has_perm+0x75/0x90 [ 3835.073008] [<ffffffff81509c50>] ? rtnetlink_rcv+0x30/0x30 [ 3835.073008] [<ffffffff81529e39>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xa9/0xc0 [ 3835.073008] [<ffffffff81509c48>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x28/0x30 .... modprobe ip_vti ip link del ip_vti0 type vti ip link add ip_vti0 type vti rmmod ip_vti do that one or more times, kernel will panic. fix it by assigning ip_tunnel_dellink to vti_link_ops' dellink, in which we skip the unregister of fb tunnel device. do the same on ip6_vti. Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/ip_vti.c | 1 + net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/net/ipv4/ip_vti.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_vti.c @@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ static struct rtnl_link_ops vti_link_ops .validate = vti_tunnel_validate, .newlink = vti_newlink, .changelink = vti_changelink, + .dellink = ip_tunnel_dellink, .get_size = vti_get_size, .fill_info = vti_fill_info, }; --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c @@ -825,6 +825,15 @@ static int vti6_newlink(struct net *src_ return vti6_tnl_create2(dev); } +static void vti6_dellink(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head) +{ + struct net *net = dev_net(dev); + struct vti6_net *ip6n = net_generic(net, vti6_net_id); + + if (dev != ip6n->fb_tnl_dev) + unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, head); +} + static int vti6_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[]) { @@ -900,6 +909,7 @@ static struct rtnl_link_ops vti6_link_op .setup = vti6_dev_setup, .validate = vti6_validate, .newlink = vti6_newlink, + .dellink = vti6_dellink, .changelink = vti6_changelink, .get_size = vti6_get_size, .fill_info = vti6_fill_info, @@ -945,6 +955,7 @@ static int __net_init vti6_init_net(stru if (!ip6n->fb_tnl_dev) goto err_alloc_dev; dev_net_set(ip6n->fb_tnl_dev, net); + ip6n->fb_tnl_dev->rtnl_link_ops = &vti6_link_ops; err = vti6_fb_tnl_dev_init(ip6n->fb_tnl_dev); if (err < 0) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/ip_tunnel-the-lack-of-vti_link_ops-dellink-cause-kernel-panic.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html