On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 14:47 +0100, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> In ipv6_add_dev, when addrconf_sysctl_register fails, we do not clean up
> the dev_snmp6 entry that we have already registered for this device.
> Call snmp6_unregister_dev in this case.
>
> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> v2: we cannot call snmp6_unregister_dev from addrconf_core.c, this
> breaks CONFIG_IPV6=m, instead do the clean up directly from
> ipv6_add_dev
> thanks Cong.
Any idea when the bug was added ?
Can we please add a proper Fixes: tag for patches that need to be
backported to stable versions ?
It seems to be
Fixes: a317a2f19da7d ("ipv6: fail early when creating netdev named all or
default")
So this goes back to linux-3.17 ?
Thanks a lot Sabrina !
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