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* [PATCH] bridge: bad error handling when adding invalid ether address
       [not found] <062c01c9adb4$c12a8e80$b100000a@Stig>
@ 2009-03-26  3:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
  2009-03-26  4:01   ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2009-03-26  3:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: 'Stig Thormodsrud', netdev, stable

This fixes an crash when empty bond device is added to a bridge.
If an interface with invalid ethernet address (all zero) is added
to a bridge, then bridge code detects it when setting up the forward
databas entry. But the error unwind is broken, the bridge port object 
can get freed twice: once when ref count went to zeo, and once by kfree.
Since object is never really accessible, just free it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

---
Patch against 2.6.29, but same code has been around for a while
in older releases, so should apply to 2.6.27.y as well.


--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c	2009-03-25 20:29:08.310404430 -0700
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c	2009-03-25 20:48:21.353468017 -0700
@@ -426,7 +426,6 @@ err2:
 err1:
 	kobject_del(&p->kobj);
 err0:
-	kobject_put(&p->kobj);
 	dev_set_promiscuity(dev, -1);
 put_back:
 	dev_put(dev);

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* Re: [PATCH] bridge: bad error handling when adding invalid ether address
  2009-03-26  3:57 ` [PATCH] bridge: bad error handling when adding invalid ether address Stephen Hemminger
@ 2009-03-26  4:01   ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2009-03-26  4:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: shemminger; +Cc: stig, netdev, stable

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:57:00 -0700

> This fixes an crash when empty bond device is added to a bridge.
> If an interface with invalid ethernet address (all zero) is added
> to a bridge, then bridge code detects it when setting up the forward
> databas entry. But the error unwind is broken, the bridge port object 
> can get freed twice: once when ref count went to zeo, and once by kfree.
> Since object is never really accessible, just free it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Applied, thanks.

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