Patch "bridge: netlink: register netdevice before executing changelink" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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 4.4-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-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Oct  5 10:49:14 CEST 2017
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:59:28 +0300
Subject: bridge: netlink: register netdevice before executing changelink

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>


[ 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@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Reported-by: Peter V. Saveliev <peter@svinota.eu>
Tested-by: Peter V. Saveliev <peter@svinota.eu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 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
@@ -1073,11 +1073,14 @@ 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@mellanox.com are

queue-4.4/bridge-netlink-register-netdevice-before-executing-changelink.patch