Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net/core: Fix crash in dev_mc_sync()/dev_mc_unsync()

From: Benjamin Thery <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:21:04 +0200

Oops, don't use the previous version of the patch:
the change in dev_mc_unsync() was not correct.
Sorry.

This one is a lot better (it compiles and runs). :)

Benjamin
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From: [email-masked]
Subject: net/core: Fix crash in dev_mc_sync()/dev_mc_unsync()

This patch fixes a crash that may occur when the routine dev_mc_sync()
deletes an address from the list it is currently going through. It 
saves the pointer to the next element before deleting the current one.
The problem may also exist in dev_mc_unsync().

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <[email-masked]>
---
 net/core/dev_mcast.c |   14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.23-rc2/net/core/dev_mcast.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.23-rc2.orig/net/core/dev_mcast.c
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc2/net/core/dev_mcast.c
@@ -116,11 +116,13 @@ int dev_mc_add(struct net_device *dev, v
  */
 int dev_mc_sync(struct net_device *to, struct net_device *from)
 {
-	struct dev_addr_list *da;
+	struct dev_addr_list *da, *next;
 	int err = 0;
 
 	netif_tx_lock_bh(to);
-	for (da = from->mc_list; da != NULL; da = da->next) {
+	da = from->mc_list;
+	while (da != NULL) {
+		next = da->next;
 		if (!da->da_synced) {
 			err = __dev_addr_add(&to->mc_list, &to->mc_count,
 					     da->da_addr, da->da_addrlen, 0);
@@ -134,6 +136,7 @@ int dev_mc_sync(struct net_device *to, s
 			__dev_addr_delete(&from->mc_list, &from->mc_count,
 					  da->da_addr, da->da_addrlen, 0);
 		}
+		da = next;
 	}
 	if (!err)
 		__dev_set_rx_mode(to);
@@ -156,12 +159,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_mc_sync);
  */
 void dev_mc_unsync(struct net_device *to, struct net_device *from)
 {
-	struct dev_addr_list *da;
+	struct dev_addr_list *da, *next;
 
 	netif_tx_lock_bh(from);
 	netif_tx_lock_bh(to);
 
-	for (da = from->mc_list; da != NULL; da = da->next) {
+	da = from->mc_list;
+	while (da != NULL) {
+		next = da->next;
 		if (!da->da_synced)
 			continue;
 		__dev_addr_delete(&to->mc_list, &to->mc_count,
@@ -169,6 +174,7 @@ void dev_mc_unsync(struct net_device *to
 		da->da_synced = 0;
 		__dev_addr_delete(&from->mc_list, &from->mc_count,
 				  da->da_addr, da->da_addrlen, 0);
+		da = next;
 	}
 	__dev_set_rx_mode(to);