[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "neighbour: populate neigh_parms on alloc before calling" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    neighbour: populate neigh_parms on alloc before calling

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 4151b0f4bd173983a59b57ab3f688a5190a416ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 19:07:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] neighbour: populate neigh_parms on alloc before calling
 ndo_neigh_setup

commit 63134803a6369dcf7dddf7f0d5e37b9566b308d2 upstream.

dev->ndo_neigh_setup() might need some of the values of neigh_parms, so
populate them before calling it.

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/core/neighbour.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index c09f82b..38d5188 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -1443,16 +1443,18 @@ struct neigh_parms *neigh_parms_alloc(struct net_device *dev,
 		atomic_set(&p->refcnt, 1);
 		p->reachable_time =
 				neigh_rand_reach_time(p->base_reachable_time);
+		dev_hold(dev);
+		p->dev = dev;
+		write_pnet(&p->net, hold_net(net));
+		p->sysctl_table = NULL;

 		if (ops->ndo_neigh_setup && ops->ndo_neigh_setup(dev, p)) {
+			release_net(net);
+			dev_put(dev);
 			kfree(p);
 			return NULL;
 		}

-		dev_hold(dev);
-		p->dev = dev;
-		write_pnet(&p->net, hold_net(net));
-		p->sysctl_table = NULL;
 		write_lock_bh(&tbl->lock);
 		p->next		= tbl->parms.next;
 		tbl->parms.next = p;
--
1.8.3.2