From b2df5a8446e135f7648736b8bec8179c88ce360d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 14:31:31 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] net/caif: Fix dangling list pointer in freed object on error. rtnl_link_ops->setup(), and the "setup" callback passed to alloc_netdev*(), cannot make state changes which need to be undone on failure. There is no cleanup mechanism available at this point. So we have to add the caif private instance to the global list once we are sure that register_netdev() has succedded in ->newlink(). Otherwise, if register_netdev() fails, the caller will invoke free_netdev() and we will have a reference to freed up memory on the chnl_net_list. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/caif/chnl_net.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/caif/chnl_net.c b/net/caif/chnl_net.c index fa9dab372b68..6008d6dc18a0 100644 --- a/net/caif/chnl_net.c +++ b/net/caif/chnl_net.c @@ -394,9 +394,7 @@ static void ipcaif_net_setup(struct net_device *dev) priv->conn_req.sockaddr.u.dgm.connection_id = -1; priv->flowenabled = false; - ASSERT_RTNL(); init_waitqueue_head(&priv->netmgmt_wq); - list_add(&priv->list_field, &chnl_net_list); } @@ -453,6 +451,8 @@ static int ipcaif_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, ret = register_netdevice(dev); if (ret) pr_warn("device rtml registration failed\n"); + else + list_add(&caifdev->list_field, &chnl_net_list); return ret; } -- 2.20.1