In event of failure during register_netdevice, free_netdev is
invoked immediately. free_netdev assumes that all the netdevice
refcounts have been dropped prior to it being called and as a
result frees and clears out the refcount pointer.
However, this is not necessarily true as some of the operations
in the NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier handlers queue RCU callbacks for
invocation after a grace period. The IPv4 callback in_dev_rcu_put
tries to access the refcount after free_netdev is called which
leads to a null de-reference-
44837.761523: <6> Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address 0000004a88287000
44837.761651: <2> pc : in_dev_finish_destroy+0x4c/0xc8
44837.761654: <2> lr : in_dev_finish_destroy+0x2c/0xc8
44837.762393: <2> Call trace:
44837.762398: <2> in_dev_finish_destroy+0x4c/0xc8
44837.762404: <2> in_dev_rcu_put+0x24/0x30
44837.762412: <2> rcu_nocb_kthread+0x43c/0x468
44837.762418: <2> kthread+0x118/0x128
44837.762424: <2> ret_from_fork+0x10/0x1c
Fix this by waiting for the completion of the call_rcu() in
case of register_netdevice errors.
Fixes:
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| .. | ||
| bpf_sk_storage.c | ||
| datagram.c | ||
| datagram.h | ||
| dev.c | ||
| dev_addr_lists.c | ||
| dev_ioctl.c | ||
| devlink.c | ||
| drop_monitor.c | ||
| dst.c | ||
| dst_cache.c | ||
| ethtool.c | ||
| failover.c | ||
| fib_notifier.c | ||
| fib_rules.c | ||
| filter.c | ||
| flow_dissector.c | ||
| flow_offload.c | ||
| gen_estimator.c | ||
| gen_stats.c | ||
| gro_cells.c | ||
| hwbm.c | ||
| link_watch.c | ||
| lwt_bpf.c | ||
| lwtunnel.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| neighbour.c | ||
| net-procfs.c | ||
| net-sysfs.c | ||
| net-sysfs.h | ||
| net-traces.c | ||
| net_namespace.c | ||
| netclassid_cgroup.c | ||
| netevent.c | ||
| netpoll.c | ||
| netprio_cgroup.c | ||
| page_pool.c | ||
| pktgen.c | ||
| ptp_classifier.c | ||
| request_sock.c | ||
| rtnetlink.c | ||
| scm.c | ||
| secure_seq.c | ||
| skbuff.c | ||
| skmsg.c | ||
| sock.c | ||
| sock_diag.c | ||
| sock_map.c | ||
| sock_reuseport.c | ||
| stream.c | ||
| sysctl_net_core.c | ||
| timestamping.c | ||
| tso.c | ||
| utils.c | ||
| xdp.c | ||