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Subject[141/262] netconsole: enable netconsole can make net_device refcnt incorrent
3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>

[ Upstream commit d5123480b1d6f7d1a5fe1a13520cef88fb5d4c84 ]

There is no check if netconsole is enabled current.
so when exec echo 1 > enabled;
the reference of net_device will increment always.
Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -307,6 +307,11 @@ static ssize_t store_enabled(struct netc
return err;
if (enabled < 0 || enabled > 1)
return -EINVAL;
+ if (enabled == nt->enabled) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "netconsole: network logging has already %s\n",
+ nt->enabled ? "started" : "stopped");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }

if (enabled) { /* 1 */




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