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
443457242b (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>
Tested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Eric W. Biderman <ebiderman@xmission.com>
Tested-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>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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