Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:14:24 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:54:38 +0100
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > > Eric W. Biderman and Michal Hocko reported various memory corruptions > that we suspected to be related to a LIST head located on stack, that > was manipulated after thread left function frame (and eventually exited, > so its stack was freed and reused). > > Eric Dumazet suggested the problem was probably coming from commit > 443457242beb (net: factorize > sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice_many) > > This patch fixes __dev_close() and dev_close() to properly deinit their > respective LIST_HEAD(single) before exiting. > > References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/16/304 > References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/14/223 > > Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> > Reported-by: Eric W. Biderman <ebiderman@xmission.com> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Applied.
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