Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD

[David Miller]

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:54:38 +0100

> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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
> 443457242beb (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@xxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Eric W. Biderman <ebiderman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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