[PATCH 3.2 191/221] rtnetlink: call ->dellink on failure when ->newlink exists

[Ben Hutchings]

3.2.69-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 7afb8886a05be68e376655539a064ec672de8a8e ]

Ignacy reported that when eth0 is down and add a vlan device
on top of it like:

  ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 up type vlan id 1

We will get a refcount leak:

  unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0.1 to become free. Usage count = 2

The problem is when rtnl_configure_link() fails in rtnl_newlink(),
we simply call unregister_device(), but for stacked device like vlan,
we almost do nothing when we unregister the upper device, more work
is done when we unregister the lower device, so call its ->dellink().

Reported-by: Ignacy Gawedzki <ignacy.gawedzki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1860,8 +1860,16 @@ replay:
 			goto out;
 
 		err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, ifm);
-		if (err < 0)
-			unregister_netdevice(dev);
+		if (err < 0) {
+			if (ops->newlink) {
+				LIST_HEAD(list_kill);
+
+				ops->dellink(dev, &list_kill);
+				unregister_netdevice_many(&list_kill);
+			} else {
+				unregister_netdevice(dev);
+			}
+		}
 out:
 		put_net(dest_net);
 		return err;

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