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authorpravin shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>2016-10-29 02:01:41 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-10-30 03:58:15 +0300
commit0e82c7635997a11dbcfa98835c179084447ae2b0 (patch)
tree8b91f0ecccf55a141b503b112c588a7e8a6a551c /net/netlink/genetlink.c
parentaf1fee98219992ba2c12441a447719652ed7e983 (diff)
downloadlinux-0e82c7635997a11dbcfa98835c179084447ae2b0.tar.xz
genetlink: Fix generic netlink family unregister
This patch fixes a typo in unregister operation. Following crash is fixed by this patch. It can be easily reproduced by repeating modprobe and rmmod module that uses genetlink. [ 261.446686] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa0264088 [ 261.448921] IP: [<ffffffff813cb70e>] strcmp+0xe/0x30 [ 261.450494] PGD 1c09067 [ 261.451266] PUD 1c0a063 [ 261.452091] PMD 8068d5067 [ 261.452525] PTE 0 [ 261.453164] [ 261.453618] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 261.454577] Modules linked in: openvswitch(+) ... [ 261.480753] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff813cb70e>] [<ffffffff813cb70e>] strcmp+0xe/0x30 [ 261.483069] RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c0bc28 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 261.510145] Call Trace: [ 261.510896] [<ffffffff816f10ca>] genl_family_find_byname+0x5a/0x70 [ 261.512819] [<ffffffff816f2319>] genl_register_family+0xb9/0x630 [ 261.514805] [<ffffffffa02840bc>] dp_init+0xbc/0x120 [openvswitch] [ 261.518268] [<ffffffff8100217d>] do_one_initcall+0x3d/0x160 [ 261.525041] [<ffffffff811808a9>] do_init_module+0x60/0x1f1 [ 261.526754] [<ffffffff8110687f>] load_module+0x22af/0x2860 [ 261.530144] [<ffffffff81107026>] SYSC_finit_module+0x96/0xd0 [ 261.531901] [<ffffffff8110707e>] SyS_finit_module+0xe/0x10 [ 261.533605] [<ffffffff8100391e>] do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x180 [ 261.535284] [<ffffffff817c2faf>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 [ 261.546512] RIP [<ffffffff813cb70e>] strcmp+0xe/0x30 [ 261.550198] ---[ end trace 76505a814dd68770 ]--- Fixes: 2ae0f17df1c ("genetlink: use idr to track families"). Reported-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> CC: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink/genetlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index df0cbcddda2c..caf04d70ba71 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ int genl_unregister_family(const struct genl_family *family)
{
genl_lock_all();
- if (genl_family_find_byid(family->id)) {
+ if (!genl_family_find_byid(family->id)) {
genl_unlock_all();
return -ENOENT;
}