| Message ID | 20130823081537.GB31293@elgon.mountain |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted, archived |
| Delegated to: | David Miller |
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:15:37 +0300 > Eric Dumazet says that my previous fix for an ERR_PTR dereference > (ea857f28ab 'ipip: dereferencing an ERR_PTR in ip_tunnel_init_net()') > could be racy and suggests the following fix instead. > > Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Applied, thanks Dan. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c index 24549b4..830de3f 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c @@ -854,16 +854,14 @@ int ip_tunnel_init_net(struct net *net, int ip_tnl_net_id, rtnl_lock(); itn->fb_tunnel_dev = __ip_tunnel_create(net, ops, &parms); - rtnl_unlock(); - - if (IS_ERR(itn->fb_tunnel_dev)) - return PTR_ERR(itn->fb_tunnel_dev); /* FB netdevice is special: we have one, and only one per netns. * Allowing to move it to another netns is clearly unsafe. */ - itn->fb_tunnel_dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL; + if (!IS_ERR(itn->fb_tunnel_dev)) + itn->fb_tunnel_dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL; + rtnl_unlock(); - return 0; + return PTR_RET(itn->fb_tunnel_dev); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ip_tunnel_init_net);
Eric Dumazet says that my previous fix for an ERR_PTR dereference (ea857f28ab 'ipip: dereferencing an ERR_PTR in ip_tunnel_init_net()') could be racy and suggests the following fix instead. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html