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* [PATCH] rtnl: reset calcit fptr in rtnl_unregister()
@ 2016-11-07 22:22 Mathias Krause
  2016-11-10  1:18 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mathias Krause @ 2016-11-07 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S. Miller; +Cc: netdev, Mathias Krause, Jeff Kirsher, Greg Rose

To avoid having dangling function pointers left behind, reset calcit in
rtnl_unregister(), too.

This is no issue so far, as only the rtnl core registers a netlink
handler with a calcit hook which won't be unregistered, but may become
one if new code makes use of the calcit hook.

Fixes: c7ac8679bec9 ("rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo...")
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 189cc78c77eb..d4c601604bf7 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ int rtnl_unregister(int protocol, int msgtype)
 
 	rtnl_msg_handlers[protocol][msgindex].doit = NULL;
 	rtnl_msg_handlers[protocol][msgindex].dumpit = NULL;
+	rtnl_msg_handlers[protocol][msgindex].calcit = NULL;
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.7.10.4

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* Re: [PATCH] rtnl: reset calcit fptr in rtnl_unregister()
  2016-11-07 22:22 [PATCH] rtnl: reset calcit fptr in rtnl_unregister() Mathias Krause
@ 2016-11-10  1:18 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2016-11-10  1:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: minipli; +Cc: netdev, jeffrey.t.kirsher, gregory.v.rose

From: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon,  7 Nov 2016 23:22:19 +0100

> To avoid having dangling function pointers left behind, reset calcit in
> rtnl_unregister(), too.
> 
> This is no issue so far, as only the rtnl core registers a netlink
> handler with a calcit hook which won't be unregistered, but may become
> one if new code makes use of the calcit hook.
> 
> Fixes: c7ac8679bec9 ("rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo...")
> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
> Cc: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>

Applied, thanks.

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