From 7afb8886a05be68e376655539a064ec672de8a8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: WANG Cong Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 13:56:53 -0800 Subject: rtnetlink: call ->dellink on failure when ->newlink exists Ignacy reported that when eth0 is down and add a vlan device on top of it like: ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 up type vlan id 1 We will get a refcount leak: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0.1 to become free. Usage count = 2 The problem is when rtnl_configure_link() fails in rtnl_newlink(), we simply call unregister_device(), but for stacked device like vlan, we almost do nothing when we unregister the upper device, more work is done when we unregister the lower device, so call its ->dellink(). Reported-by: Ignacy Gawedzki Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net') diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 5be499b..ab293a3 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -2162,7 +2162,14 @@ replay: } err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, ifm); if (err < 0) { - unregister_netdevice(dev); + if (ops->newlink) { + LIST_HEAD(list_kill); + + ops->dellink(dev, &list_kill); + unregister_netdevice_many(&list_kill); + } else { + unregister_netdevice(dev); + } goto out; } -- cgit v1.1