Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:09:00 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bonding: Fix use after free in unregister path |
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* Jeff Garzik (jeff@garzik.org) wrote: > Jay Vosburgh wrote: > > The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger > ><shemminger@linux-foundation.org>) removes use after free conditions in > >the unregister path for the bonding master. Without this patch, an > >operation of the form "echo -bond0 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters" > >would trigger a NULL pointer dereference in sysfs. I was not able to > >induce the failure with the non-sysfs code path, but for consistency I > >updated that code as well. > > > > I also did some testing of the bonding /proc file being open > >while the bond is being deleted, and didn't see any problems there. > > > >Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> > > applied to #upstream-fixes
This was originally discovered on 2.6.21.5 IIRC, so plan to send this to -stable as well?
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