From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
opurdila@ixiacom.com, mingo@elte.hu, mhocko@suse.cz,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:14:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110218.121424.112608933.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298019278.2595.83.camel@edumazet-laptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:54:38 +0100
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>
> Eric W. Biderman and Michal Hocko reported various memory corruptions
> that we suspected to be related to a LIST head located on stack, that
> was manipulated after thread left function frame (and eventually exited,
> so its stack was freed and reused).
>
> Eric Dumazet suggested the problem was probably coming from commit
> 443457242beb (net: factorize
> sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice_many)
>
> This patch fixes __dev_close() and dev_close() to properly deinit their
> respective LIST_HEAD(single) before exiting.
>
> References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/16/304
> References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/14/223
>
> Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> Reported-by: Eric W. Biderman <ebiderman@xmission.com>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Applied.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-18 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-16 18:52 BUG: Bad page map in process udevd (anon_vma: (null)) in 2.6.38-rc4 Michal Hocko
2011-02-16 19:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-16 19:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-16 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-16 20:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-17 9:09 ` Michal Hocko
2011-02-17 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-17 16:26 ` Michal Hocko
2011-02-17 16:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-17 18:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-17 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-17 19:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 3:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 4:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-18 4:36 ` David Miller
2011-02-18 6:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-18 7:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-18 8:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD Eric Dumazet
2011-02-18 20:14 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-02-18 4:38 ` BUG: Bad page map in process udevd (anon_vma: (null)) in 2.6.38-rc4 Linus Torvalds
2011-02-18 4:40 ` David Miller
2011-02-18 4:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-18 8:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 5:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 8:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-18 8:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: deinit automatic LIST_HEAD Eric Dumazet
2011-02-18 20:14 ` David Miller
2011-02-18 12:29 ` BUG: Bad page map in process udevd (anon_vma: (null)) in 2.6.38-rc4 Michal Hocko
2011-02-18 16:26 ` Michal Hocko
2011-02-18 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-18 18:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-18 19:01 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-02-18 19:11 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-02-18 20:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-19 8:35 ` [PATCH] tcp: fix inet_twsk_deschedule() Eric Dumazet
2011-02-20 2:59 ` David Miller
2011-02-18 19:13 ` BUG: Bad page map in process udevd (anon_vma: (null)) in 2.6.38-rc4 Eric Dumazet
2011-02-18 19:56 ` David Miller
2011-02-19 6:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-19 15:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-20 2:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-20 6:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-20 8:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-20 19:53 ` David Miller
2011-02-20 21:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 8:54 ` Michal Hocko
2011-02-20 12:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-17 16:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-17 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-17 19:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-17 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-16 20:13 ` Ingo Molnar
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