[PATCH 005/104] neighbour: populate neigh_parms on alloc before calling ndo_neigh_setup

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Oct 10 15:40:53 UTC 2013


3.8.13.11 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico at redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 63134803a6369dcf7dddf7f0d5e37b9566b308d2 ]

dev->ndo_neigh_setup() might need some of the values of neigh_parms, so
populate them before calling it.

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/core/neighbour.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 8f9a6c6..e7f5bff 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -1458,16 +1458,18 @@ struct neigh_parms *neigh_parms_alloc(struct net_device *dev,
 		atomic_set(&p->refcnt, 1);
 		p->reachable_time =
 				neigh_rand_reach_time(p->base_reachable_time);
+		dev_hold(dev);
+		p->dev = dev;
+		write_pnet(&p->net, hold_net(net));
+		p->sysctl_table = NULL;
 
 		if (ops->ndo_neigh_setup && ops->ndo_neigh_setup(dev, p)) {
+			release_net(net);
+			dev_put(dev);
 			kfree(p);
 			return NULL;
 		}
 
-		dev_hold(dev);
-		p->dev = dev;
-		write_pnet(&p->net, hold_net(net));
-		p->sysctl_table = NULL;
 		write_lock_bh(&tbl->lock);
 		p->next		= tbl->parms.next;
 		tbl->parms.next = p;
-- 
1.8.1.2





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