[ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next 1/8] vxlan: Fix error handling while creating device.

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Thu Jun 20 15:47:48 UTC 2013


On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:26:25 -0700
Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com> wrote:

> Delete vxlan-sock list entry from list before freeing the memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/vxlan.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
> index 284c6c0..173705f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
> @@ -1606,9 +1606,11 @@ static int vxlan_newlink(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev,
>  	err = register_netdevice(dev);
>  	if (err) {
>  		if (--vs->refcnt == 0) {
> +			hlist_del_rcu(&vs->hlist);
>  			rtnl_unlock();
> +
>  			sk_release_kernel(vs->sock->sk);
> -			kfree(vs);
> +			kfree_rcu(vs, rcu);
>  			rtnl_lock();
>  		}
>  		return err;

This will not be necessary with my next patch set, that code all changes.



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