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ppp: fix segfaults introduced by netdev_priv changes

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This patch fixes a segfault in ppp_shutdown_interface() and
ppp_destroy_interface() when a PPP connection is closed. I bisected
the problem to the following commit:

  commit c8019bf3af
  Author: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
  Date:   Thu Nov 20 04:24:17 2008 -0800

    netdevice ppp: Convert directly reference of netdev->priv

    1. Use netdev_priv(dev) to replace dev->priv.
    2. Alloc netdev's private data by alloc_netdev().

    Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The original ppp_generic code treated the netdev and struct ppp as
independent data structures which were freed separately. In moving the
ppp struct into the netdev, it is now possible for the private data to
be freed before the call to ppp_shutdown_interface(), which is bad.

The kfree(ppp) in ppp_destroy_interface() is also wrong; presumably
ppp hasn't worked since the above commit.

The following patch fixes both problems.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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James Chapman 2008-12-17 12:02:16 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 1b08534e56
commit 739840d529
1 changed files with 13 additions and 15 deletions
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drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
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@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ struct ppp {
unsigned long last_xmit; /* jiffies when last pkt sent 9c */
unsigned long last_recv; /* jiffies when last pkt rcvd a0 */
struct net_device *dev; /* network interface device a4 */
int closing; /* is device closing down? a8 */
#ifdef CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK
int nxchan; /* next channel to send something on */
u32 nxseq; /* next sequence number to send */
@ -995,7 +996,7 @@ ppp_xmit_process(struct ppp *ppp)
struct sk_buff *skb;
ppp_xmit_lock(ppp);
if (ppp->dev) {
if (!ppp->closing) {
ppp_push(ppp);
while (!ppp->xmit_pending
&& (skb = skb_dequeue(&ppp->file.xq)))
@ -1463,8 +1464,7 @@ static inline void
ppp_do_recv(struct ppp *ppp, struct sk_buff *skb, struct channel *pch)
{
ppp_recv_lock(ppp);
/* ppp->dev == 0 means interface is closing down */
if (ppp->dev)
if (!ppp->closing)
ppp_receive_frame(ppp, skb, pch);
else
kfree_skb(skb);
@ -2498,18 +2498,16 @@ init_ppp_file(struct ppp_file *pf, int kind)
*/
static void ppp_shutdown_interface(struct ppp *ppp)
{
struct net_device *dev;
mutex_lock(&all_ppp_mutex);
ppp_lock(ppp);
dev = ppp->dev;
ppp->dev = NULL;
ppp_unlock(ppp);
/* This will call dev_close() for us. */
if (dev) {
unregister_netdev(dev);
free_netdev(dev);
}
ppp_lock(ppp);
if (!ppp->closing) {
ppp->closing = 1;
ppp_unlock(ppp);
unregister_netdev(ppp->dev);
} else
ppp_unlock(ppp);
cardmap_set(&all_ppp_units, ppp->file.index, NULL);
ppp->file.dead = 1;
ppp->owner = NULL;
@ -2554,7 +2552,7 @@ static void ppp_destroy_interface(struct ppp *ppp)
if (ppp->xmit_pending)
kfree_skb(ppp->xmit_pending);
kfree(ppp);
free_netdev(ppp->dev);
}
/*
@ -2616,7 +2614,7 @@ ppp_connect_channel(struct channel *pch, int unit)
if (pch->file.hdrlen > ppp->file.hdrlen)
ppp->file.hdrlen = pch->file.hdrlen;
hdrlen = pch->file.hdrlen + 2; /* for protocol bytes */
if (ppp->dev && hdrlen > ppp->dev->hard_header_len)
if (hdrlen > ppp->dev->hard_header_len)
ppp->dev->hard_header_len = hdrlen;
list_add_tail(&pch->clist, &ppp->channels);
++ppp->n_channels;