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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] bridge: kernel panic when unloading bridge module
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:29:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080428172907.2517c12e@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080428172809.7f814ed5@extreme>

There is a race condition when unloading bridge and netfilter.

The problem happens if __fake_rtable is in use by a skb
coming in, while someone starts to unload bridge.ko.
br_netfilter_fini() is called at the beginning of unload
in br_deinit() while skbs still are being forwarded and
transferred to local ip stack. Thus there is a possibility
of the __fake_rtable pointer not being removed in a skb that
goes up to ip stack. This results in a kernel panic, as
ip_rcv() calls the input-function of __fake_rtable, which
is NULL.

Moving the call of br_netfilter_fini() to the end of
br_deinit() solves the problem.

Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>

---
 net/bridge/br.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

--- a/net/bridge/br.c	2008-04-28 15:27:06.000000000 -0700
+++ b/net/bridge/br.c	2008-04-28 15:31:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ static void __exit br_deinit(void)
 	rcu_assign_pointer(br_stp_sap->rcv_func, NULL);
 
 	br_netlink_fini();
-	br_netfilter_fini();
 	unregister_netdevice_notifier(&br_device_notifier);
 	brioctl_set(NULL);
 
@@ -84,6 +83,7 @@ static void __exit br_deinit(void)
 
 	synchronize_net();
 
+	br_netfilter_fini();
 	llc_sap_put(br_stp_sap);
 	br_fdb_get_hook = NULL;
 	br_fdb_put_hook = NULL;

       reply	other threads:[~2008-04-29  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080428172809.7f814ed5@extreme>
2008-04-29  0:29 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-04-29 10:18   ` [PATCH 2/2] bridge: kernel panic when unloading bridge module David Miller

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