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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-05-10 12:26:06 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-05-10 15:03:33 -0700
commite14a599335427f81bbb0008963e59aa9c6449dce (patch)
treea60c2f9924511dec1389f0078144a2d7a045559e /net
parent55aee10dec477254241e4f72968f92e0543b33ad (diff)
net: dev_close() should check IFF_UP
Commit 443457242beb (factorize sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice_many) mistakenly removed one test from dev_close() Following actions trigger a BUG : modprobe bonding modprobe dummy ifconfig bond0 up ifenslave bond0 dummy0 rmmod dummy dev_close() must not close a non IFF_UP device. With help from Frank Blaschka and Einar EL Lueck Reported-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Einar EL Lueck <ELELUECK@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 856b6ee9a1d..92009440d28 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1284,11 +1284,13 @@ static int dev_close_many(struct list_head *head)
*/
int dev_close(struct net_device *dev)
{
- LIST_HEAD(single);
+ if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
+ LIST_HEAD(single);
- list_add(&dev->unreg_list, &single);
- dev_close_many(&single);
- list_del(&single);
+ list_add(&dev->unreg_list, &single);
+ dev_close_many(&single);
+ list_del(&single);
+ }
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_close);