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authorGao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>2011-10-11 16:08:11 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-11-11 09:36:27 -0800
commit18743353b3154f0ff7c29f3c5ae3a8466a70d73a (patch)
treecd647b83853135d4481a93cb1185647a2972a720 /drivers/net/netconsole.c
parent89c32c14c190c6113187c7c57784695701e314e4 (diff)
netconsole: enable netconsole can make net_device refcnt incorrent
[ Upstream commit d5123480b1d6f7d1a5fe1a13520cef88fb5d4c84 ] There is no check if netconsole is enabled current. so when exec echo 1 > enabled; the reference of net_device will increment always. Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/netconsole.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/netconsole.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index dfc82720065..4840ab7e7f8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -307,6 +307,11 @@ static ssize_t store_enabled(struct netconsole_target *nt,
return err;
if (enabled < 0 || enabled > 1)
return -EINVAL;
+ if (enabled == nt->enabled) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "netconsole: network logging has already %s\n",
+ nt->enabled ? "started" : "stopped");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
if (enabled) { /* 1 */