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| author | Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-10-05 03:39:21 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-10-05 20:06:01 -0700 |
| commit | 27e6f065df132b5270014d3285889b15185e9da9 (patch) | |
| tree | b529f186972ab0577e96e4234803d795f143a2bd /drivers/net | |
| parent | 392bd0cb000d4aac9e88e4f50823db85e7220688 (diff) | |
bonding: fix WARN_ON when writing to bond_master sysfs file
Fix a WARN_ON failure in bond_masters sysfs file
Got a report of this warning recently
bonding: bond0 is being created...
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WARNING: at fs/proc/generic.c:590 proc_register+0x14d/0x185()
Hardware name: ProLiant BL465c G1
proc_dir_entry 'bonding/bond0' already registered
Modules linked in: bonding ipv6 tg3 bnx2 shpchp amd64_edac_mod edac_core
ipmi_si
ipmi_msghandler serio_raw i2c_piix4 k8temp edac_mce_amd hpwdt microcode hpsa
cc
iss radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core [last unloaded:
scsi_wai
t_scan]
Pid: 935, comm: ifup-eth Not tainted 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8104b54c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0x8f
[<ffffffff8104b5b1>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x3c/0x3e
[<ffffffff8114bf0b>] proc_register+0x14d/0x185
[<ffffffff8114c20c>] proc_create_data+0x87/0xa1
[<ffffffffa0211e9b>] bond_create_proc_entry+0x55/0x95 [bonding]
[<ffffffffa0215e5d>] bond_init+0x95/0xd0 [bonding]
[<ffffffff8138cd97>] register_netdevice+0xdd/0x29e
[<ffffffffa021240b>] bond_create+0x8e/0xb8 [bonding]
[<ffffffffa021c4be>] bonding_store_bonds+0xb3/0x1c1 [bonding]
[<ffffffff812aec85>] class_attr_store+0x27/0x29
[<ffffffff8115423d>] sysfs_write_file+0x10f/0x14b
[<ffffffff81101acf>] vfs_write+0xa9/0x106
[<ffffffff81101be2>] sys_write+0x45/0x69
[<ffffffff81009b02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
---[ end trace a677c3f7f8b16b1e ]---
bonding: Bond creation failed.
It happens because a user space writer to bond_master can try to
register an already existing bond interface name. Fix it by teaching
bond_create to check for the existance of devices with that name first
in cases where a non-NULL name parameter has been passed in
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c index 3b16f62d560..e953c6ad6e6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -5164,6 +5164,15 @@ int bond_create(struct net *net, const char *name) res = dev_alloc_name(bond_dev, "bond%d"); if (res < 0) goto out; + } else { + /* + * If we're given a name to register + * we need to ensure that its not already + * registered + */ + res = -EEXIST; + if (__dev_get_by_name(net, name) != NULL) + goto out; } res = register_netdevice(bond_dev); |