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    net: Fix null de-reference of device refcount · 10cc514f
    Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan authored
    In event of failure during register_netdevice, free_netdev is
    invoked immediately. free_netdev assumes that all the netdevice
    refcounts have been dropped prior to it being called and as a
    result frees and clears out the refcount pointer.
    
    However, this is not necessarily true as some of the operations
    in the NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier handlers queue RCU callbacks for
    invocation after a grace period. The IPv4 callback in_dev_rcu_put
    tries to access the refcount after free_netdev is called which
    leads to a null de-reference-
    
    44837.761523:   <6> Unable to handle kernel paging request at
                        virtual address 0000004a88287000
    44837.761651:   <2> pc : in_dev_finish_destroy+0x4c/0xc8
    44837.761654:   <2> lr : in_dev_finish_destroy+0x2c/0xc8
    44837.762393:   <2> Call trace:
    44837.762398:   <2>  in_dev_finish_destroy+0x4c/0xc8
    44837.762404:   <2>  in_dev_rcu_put+0x24/0x30
    44837.762412:   <2>  rcu_nocb_kthread+0x43c/0x468
    44837.762418:   <2>  kthread+0x118/0x128
    44837.762424:   <2>  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x1c
    
    Fix this by waiting for the completion of the call_rcu() in
    case of register_netdevice errors.
    
    Fixes: 93ee31f1
    
     ("[NET]: Fix free_netdev on register_netdev failure.")
    Cc: Sean Tranchetti <stranche@codeaurora.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSubash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    10cc514f