Commit 1801acf8 authored by Satyam Sharma's avatar Satyam Sharma Committed by Willy Tarreau

[PATCH] Netpoll leak

[NETPOLL]: Fix a leak-n-bug in netpoll_cleanup()

93ec2c72 applied excessive duct tape to
the netpoll beast's netpoll_cleanup(), thus substituting one leak with
another, and opening up a little buglet :-)

net_device->npinfo (netpoll_info) is a shared and refcounted object and
cannot simply be set NULL the first time netpoll_cleanup() is called.
Otherwise, further netpoll_cleanup()'s see np->dev->npinfo == NULL and
become no-ops, thus leaking. And it's a bug too: the first call to
netpoll_cleanup() would thus (annoyingly) "disable" other (still alive)
netpolls too. Maybe nobody noticed this because netconsole (only user
of netpoll) never supported multiple netpoll objects earlier.

This is a trivial and obvious one-line fixlet.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSatyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
parent 676834f0
......@@ -776,7 +776,6 @@ void netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
}
np->dev->npinfo = NULL;
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&npinfo->refcnt)) {
skb_queue_purge(&npinfo->arp_tx);
skb_queue_purge(&npinfo->txq);
......@@ -784,6 +783,7 @@ void netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np)
flush_scheduled_work();
kfree(npinfo);
np->dev->npinfo = NULL;
}
}
......
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