Commit 60ba834c authored by Jay Vosburgh's avatar Jay Vosburgh Committed by David S. Miller

net/core: __hw_addr_unsync_one "from" address not marked synced

When an address is added to a subordinate interface (the "to"
list), the address entry in the "from" list is not marked "synced" as
the entry added to the "to" list is.

	When performing the unsync operation (e.g., dev_mc_unsync),
__hw_addr_unsync_one calls __hw_addr_del_entry with the "synced"
parameter set to true for the case when the address reference is being
released from the "from" list.  This causes a test inside to fail,
with the result being that the reference count on the "from" address
is not properly decremeted and the address on the "from" list will
never be freed.

	Correct this by having __hw_addr_unsync_one call the
__hw_addr_del_entry function with the "sync" flag set to false for the
"remove from the from list" case.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarShawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 9747ba66
...@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ static void __hw_addr_unsync_one(struct netdev_hw_addr_list *to_list, ...@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ static void __hw_addr_unsync_one(struct netdev_hw_addr_list *to_list,
if (err) if (err)
return; return;
ha->sync_cnt--; ha->sync_cnt--;
__hw_addr_del_entry(from_list, ha, false, true); /* address on from list is not marked synced */
__hw_addr_del_entry(from_list, ha, false, false);
} }
static int __hw_addr_sync_multiple(struct netdev_hw_addr_list *to_list, static int __hw_addr_sync_multiple(struct netdev_hw_addr_list *to_list,
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