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From: Wengang <wen.gang.wang@oracle.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: clear header_ops when last slave detached (v2)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:00:50 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <546C4022.5010509@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416375565.14060.43.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

Hi Eric,

于 2014年11月19日 13:39, Eric Dumazet 写道:
> On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 13:18 +0800, Wengang Wang wrote:
>> When last slave of a bonding master is removed, the bonding then does not work.
>> When packet_snd is called against with a master net_device, it accesses
>> header_ops. In case the header_ops is not valid any longer(say ipoib module
>> unloaded), it will then access an invalid memory address.
>> This patch try to fix this issue by clearing header_ops when last slave
>> detached.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@oracle.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> It seems you basically ignored my feedback.
>
>
>
> Some code is doing :
>
> [A] if (dev->header_ops) {
>      ...
> [B]    dev->header_ops->XXX()
>
>
>
> Nothing prevents you doing the clear after [A] , and before [B]
>

Yes, that's true. So the simplest way is move ipoib_header_ops to vmlinux.

thanks for review.
wengang

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-19  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-19  5:18 [PATCH] bonding: clear header_ops when last slave detached (v2) Wengang Wang
2014-11-19  5:22 ` Wengang
2014-11-19  5:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-19  7:00   ` Wengang [this message]
2014-11-19 22:26     ` Cong Wang
2014-11-19 22:56       ` Cong Wang
2014-11-20  6:41       ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-20 17:34         ` Cong Wang
2014-11-20 20:41           ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-20 21:57             ` Cong Wang
2014-11-20 22:03               ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-20 22:13                 ` Cong Wang
2014-11-20 22:53                   ` Jay Vosburgh
2014-11-21 18:17                     ` Cong Wang
2014-11-21 18:54                       ` Jay Vosburgh
2014-11-24  3:05                         ` Wengang
2014-11-21 18:55                       ` David Miller

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