From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751790AbdITFBv (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2017 01:01:51 -0400 Received: from omzsmtpe01.verizonbusiness.com ([199.249.25.210]:52637 "EHLO omzsmtpe01.verizonbusiness.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751636AbdITEp4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:45:56 -0400 From: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" Cc: Feras Daoud , Or Gerlitz , Erez Shitrit , Leon Romanovsky , "Doug Ledford" , "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" X-Host: discovery.odc.vzwcorp.com To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH review for 4.4 19/47] IB/ipoib: rtnl_unlock can not come after free_netdev Thread-Topic: [PATCH review for 4.4 19/47] IB/ipoib: rtnl_unlock can not come after free_netdev Thread-Index: AQHTMcs5T3SOabCmhU+FCipiFNGE8g== Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 04:45:04 +0000 Message-ID: <20170920044445.7392-19-alexander.levin@verizon.com> References: <20170920044445.7392-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com> In-Reply-To: <20170920044445.7392-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ms-exchange-messagesentrepresentingtype: 1 x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [10.144.60.250] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by nfs id v8K51tR7025292 From: Feras Daoud [ Upstream commit 89a3987ab7a923c047c6dec008e60ad6f41fac22 ] The ipoib_vlan_add function calls rtnl_unlock after free_netdev, rtnl_unlock not only releases the lock, but also calls netdev_run_todo. The latter function browses the net_todo_list array and completes the unregistration of all its net_device instances. If we call free_netdev before rtnl_unlock, then netdev_run_todo call over the freed device causes panic. To fix, move rtnl_unlock call before free_netdev call. Fixes: 9baa0b036410 ("IB/ipoib: Add rtnl_link_ops support") Cc: Or Gerlitz Signed-off-by: Feras Daoud Signed-off-by: Erez Shitrit Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c index 3a647fd50f09..9b47a437d6c9 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c @@ -160,11 +160,11 @@ int ipoib_vlan_add(struct net_device *pdev, unsigned short pkey) out: up_write(&ppriv->vlan_rwsem); + rtnl_unlock(); + if (result) free_netdev(priv->dev); - rtnl_unlock(); - return result; } -- 2.11.0