From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46830 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754789AbbKQWjS (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:39:18 -0500 Subject: Patch "ipv6: clean up dev_snmp6 proc entry when we fail to initialize inet6_dev" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree To: sd@queasysnail.net, davem@davemloft.net, dvyukov@google.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:39:16 -0800 Message-ID: <14477999568111@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: clean up dev_snmp6 proc entry when we fail to initialize inet6_dev to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ipv6-clean-up-dev_snmp6-proc-entry-when-we-fail-to-initialize-inet6_dev.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Tue Nov 17 14:35:45 PST 2015 From: Sabrina Dubroca Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 14:47:53 +0100 Subject: ipv6: clean up dev_snmp6 proc entry when we fail to initialize inet6_dev From: Sabrina Dubroca [ Upstream commit 2a189f9e57650e9f310ddf4aad75d66c1233a064 ] In ipv6_add_dev, when addrconf_sysctl_register fails, we do not clean up the dev_snmp6 entry that we have already registered for this device. Call snmp6_unregister_dev in this case. Fixes: a317a2f19da7d ("ipv6: fail early when creating netdev named all or default") Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ static struct inet6_dev *ipv6_add_dev(st if (err) { ipv6_mc_destroy_dev(ndev); del_timer(&ndev->regen_timer); + snmp6_unregister_dev(ndev); goto err_release; } /* protected by rtnl_lock */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sd@queasysnail.net are queue-4.1/ipv6-clean-up-dev_snmp6-proc-entry-when-we-fail-to-initialize-inet6_dev.patch