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From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>,
	Chad Tindel <ctindel@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race condition about network device name allocation
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:36:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15712.1181795790@death> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070613155335.47111c67@localhost>


	The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger
<shemminger@linux-foundation.org>) removes use after free conditions in
the unregister path for the bonding master.  Without this patch, an
operation of the form "echo -bond0 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters"
would trigger a NULL pointer dereference in sysfs.  I was not able to
induce the failure with the non-sysfs code path, but for consistency I
updated that code as well.

	I also did some testing of the bonding /proc file being open
while the bond is being deleted, and didn't see any problems there.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 223517d..6287ffb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -4345,8 +4345,8 @@ static void bond_free_all(void)
 		bond_mc_list_destroy(bond);
 		/* Release the bonded slaves */
 		bond_release_all(bond_dev);
-		unregister_netdevice(bond_dev);
 		bond_deinit(bond_dev);
+		unregister_netdevice(bond_dev);
 	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
index a122baa..60cccf2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
@@ -164,9 +164,9 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_bonds(struct class *cls, const char *buffer, size_t
 				printk(KERN_INFO DRV_NAME
 					": %s is being deleted...\n",
 					bond->dev->name);
-				unregister_netdevice(bond->dev);
 				bond_deinit(bond->dev);
 		        	bond_destroy_sysfs_entry(bond);
+				unregister_netdevice(bond->dev);
 				rtnl_unlock();
 				goto out;
 			}

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-14  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-11  5:40 [BUG][PATCH] Fix race condition about network device name allocation Kenji Kaneshige
2007-05-11 15:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-11 16:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-14  1:33   ` Kenji Kaneshige
2007-05-14 15:41     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-14  8:17   ` Kenji Kaneshige
2007-05-14 15:58     ` [PATCH] " Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-13  9:45       ` Dan Aloni
2007-06-13 16:36         ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-14  6:07           ` Dan Aloni
2007-06-13 22:53         ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-14  4:36           ` Jay Vosburgh [this message]
2007-06-19 15:23             ` Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5? Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-19 17:52               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-19 18:12                 ` [PATCH] bonding: Fix use after free in unregister path Jay Vosburgh
2007-06-20 23:12                   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-21  0:09                     ` Chris Wright
2007-06-19 22:04                 ` Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5? David Miller

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