From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: "wanghai (M)" <wanghai26@huawei.com>
Cc: syzbot <syzbot+6024817a931b2830bc93@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, amritha.nambiar@intel.com,
andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, davem@davemloft.net,
dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
idosch@mellanox.com, joe@perches.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
stephen@networkplumber.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
tyhicks@canonical.com, yuehaibing@huawei.com,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at net/core/net-sysfs.c:LINE!
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 03:55:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190405025522.GI2217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79eff7ec-4127-e58c-bf11-ade3b482fb43@huawei.com>
On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 11:19:03AM +0800, wanghai (M) wrote:
> Can someone fix this issue? Thanks.
Revert the bogus patch, perhaps? Because bogus it is - failure of
register_netdevice() should NOT drop the reference it's been given.
It's up to the caller and that's when the name will be freed.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-05 2:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-23 7:32 kernel BUG at net/core/net-sysfs.c:LINE! syzbot
2019-03-23 17:16 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-25 15:20 ` wanghai (M)
2019-03-25 16:10 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-25 18:55 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-03-25 19:18 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-04-04 3:19 ` wanghai (M)
2019-04-04 3:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-04-05 2:55 ` Al Viro [this message]
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