Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Problem Description: Kernel oops whenever bonding driver with max_bonds=2
>> (or >
>> 2) is loaded ...
I believe this is fixed by the following (from linux-2.6):
From: Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:07:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] bonding: fix NULL pointer deref in startup processing
Fix the "are we creating a duplicate" check to not compare
the name if the name is NULL (meaning that the system should select
a name). Bug reported by Benny Amorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 16 +++++++++-------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 65c7eba..81b4574 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -4896,14 +4896,16 @@ int bond_create(char *name, struct bond_params *params,
struct bonding **newbond
down_write(&bonding_rwsem);
/* Check to see if the bond already exists. */
- list_for_each_entry_safe(bond, nxt, &bond_dev_list, bond_list)
- if (strnicmp(bond->dev->name, name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0) {
- printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME
+ if (name) {
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(bond, nxt, &bond_dev_list, bond_list)
+ if (strnicmp(bond->dev->name, name, IFNAMSIZ) == 0) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME
": cannot add bond %s; it already exists\n",
- name);
- res = -EPERM;
- goto out_rtnl;
- }
+ name);
+ res = -EPERM;
+ goto out_rtnl;
+ }
+ }
bond_dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct bonding), name ? name : "",
ether_setup);
--
1.5.2.4
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