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From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: vfalico@redhat.com, fubar@us.ibm.com, andy@greyhouse.net,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, joe@perches.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/2] fix bonding neighbour setup handling
Date: Fri,  2 Aug 2013 19:07:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1375463259-12033-1-git-send-email-vfalico@redhat.com> (raw)

Recent patches revealed an old bug, which was there for quite awhile. It's
related to vlan on top of bonding and ndo_neigh_setup(). When vlan device
is initiated, it calls its real_dev->ndo_neigh_setup(), and in case of
bonding - it will modify neigh_parms->neigh_setup to point to
bond_neigh_init, while neigh_parms are of vlan's dev.

This way, when neigh_parms->neigh_setup() of vlan's dev is called, the
bonding function will be called, which expects the dev to be struct
bonding, but will receive a vlan dev.

It was hidden before because of bond->first_slave usage. Now, with
Nikolay's conversion to list/RCU, first_slave is gone and we hit a null
pointer dereference when working with lists/slave.

First patch moves ndo_neigh_setup() in neigh_parms_alloc() to the bottom,
so that the ->dev will be available to the caller. It doesn't really change
anything, however is needed for the second patch.

Second patch makes bond_neigh_setup() (bond->ndo_neigh_setup()) check if
the neigh_parms are really from a bonding dev, and only modify the
neigh_setup in this case.

 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |    8 +++++++-
 net/core/neighbour.c            |   10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

             reply	other threads:[~2013-08-02 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-02 17:07 Veaceslav Falico [this message]
2013-08-02 17:07 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] neighbour: populate neigh_parms on alloc before calling ndo_neigh_setup Veaceslav Falico
2013-08-02 17:07 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] bonding: modify only neigh_parms owned by us Veaceslav Falico
2013-08-02 22:45 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] fix bonding neighbour setup handling David Miller
2013-08-05 13:49   ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-08-05 22:25     ` David Miller

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