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authorCong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>2014-02-11 15:51:30 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-02-13 17:08:29 -0500
commit0e0eee2465df77bcec2e8ff75432b8e57897b143 (patch)
tree8d0728743356a1f524b6f88f09a1b09016d56190 /net
parentda37705cef30841616ed644ff33455bbc7374db0 (diff)
net: correct error path in rtnl_newlink()
I saw the following BUG when ->newlink() fails in rtnl_newlink(): [ 40.240058] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6438! this is due to free_netdev() is not supposed to be called before netdev is completely unregistered, therefore it is not correct to call free_netdev() here, at least for ops->newlink!=NULL case, many drivers call it in ->destructor so that rtnl_unlock() will take care of it, we probably don't need to do anything here. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c19
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 048dc8d183aa..1a0dac2ef9ad 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1963,16 +1963,21 @@ replay:
dev->ifindex = ifm->ifi_index;
- if (ops->newlink)
+ if (ops->newlink) {
err = ops->newlink(net, dev, tb, data);
- else
+ /* Drivers should call free_netdev() in ->destructor
+ * and unregister it on failure so that device could be
+ * finally freed in rtnl_unlock.
+ */
+ if (err < 0)
+ goto out;
+ } else {
err = register_netdevice(dev);
-
- if (err < 0) {
- free_netdev(dev);
- goto out;
+ if (err < 0) {
+ free_netdev(dev);
+ goto out;
+ }
}
-
err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, ifm);
if (err < 0)
unregister_netdevice(dev);