From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756236Ab2KNFua (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:50:30 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:55036 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754452Ab2KNFuW (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:50:22 -0500 Message-Id: <20121114053944.039777768@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:40:47 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Tom Parkin , "David S. Miller" Subject: [ 74/82] l2tp: fix oops in l2tp_eth_create() error path In-Reply-To: <20121114053933.726869752@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tom Parkin [ Upstream commit 789336360e0a2aeb9750c16ab704a02cbe035e9e ] When creating an L2TPv3 Ethernet session, if register_netdev() should fail for any reason (for example, automatic naming for "l2tpeth%d" interfaces hits the 32k-interface limit), the netdev is freed in the error path. However, the l2tp_eth_sess structure's dev pointer is left uncleared, and this results in l2tp_eth_delete() then attempting to unregister the same netdev later in the session teardown. This results in an oops. To avoid this, clear the session dev pointer in the error path. Signed-off-by: Tom Parkin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c index 2cef50b..64164fb 100644 --- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c +++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c @@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ static int l2tp_eth_create(struct net *net, u32 tunnel_id, u32 session_id, u32 p out_del_dev: free_netdev(dev); + spriv->dev = NULL; out_del_session: l2tp_session_delete(session); out: