When a failure occurs in rtnl_configure_link(), the current code calls unregister_netdevice() to roll back the earlier call to register_netdevice(), and jumps to errout, which calls vxlan_fdb_destroy().
However unregister_netdevice() calls transitively ndo_uninit, which is vxlan_uninit(), and that already takes care of deleting the default FDB entry by calling vxlan_fdb_delete_default(). Since the entry added earlier in __vxlan_dev_create() is exactly the default entry, the cleanup code in the errout block always leads to double free and thus a panic. Besides, since vxlan_fdb_delete_default() always destroys the FDB entry with notification enabled, the deletion of the default entry is notified even before the addition was notified. Instead, move the unregister_netdevice() call after the manual destroy, which solves both problems. Fixes: 0241b836732f ("vxlan: fix default fdb entry netlink notify ordering during netdev create") Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <pe...@mellanox.com> --- Notes: v3: - Reuse the same errout block for both cleanup paths. Use a bool to decide whether the unregister_netdevice() call should be made. v2: - Delete the default entry before calling unregister_netdevice(). That takes care of former patch #3, hence tweak the commit message to mention that problem as well. drivers/net/vxlan.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c index c9956c08edf5..82e78d6fd9ae 100644 --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c @@ -3259,6 +3259,7 @@ static int __vxlan_dev_create(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev, struct vxlan_net *vn = net_generic(net, vxlan_net_id); struct vxlan_dev *vxlan = netdev_priv(dev); struct vxlan_fdb *f = NULL; + bool unregister = false; int err; err = vxlan_dev_configure(net, dev, conf, false, extack); @@ -3284,12 +3285,11 @@ static int __vxlan_dev_create(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev, err = register_netdevice(dev); if (err) goto errout; + unregister = true; err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, NULL); - if (err) { - unregister_netdevice(dev); + if (err) goto errout; - } /* notify default fdb entry */ if (f) @@ -3297,9 +3297,16 @@ static int __vxlan_dev_create(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev, list_add(&vxlan->next, &vn->vxlan_list); return 0; + errout: + /* unregister_netdevice() destroys the default FDB entry with deletion + * notification. But the addition notification was not sent yet, so + * destroy the entry by hand here. + */ if (f) vxlan_fdb_destroy(vxlan, f, false); + if (unregister) + unregister_netdevice(dev); return err; } -- 2.4.11