linux/net
Joel Stanley 1922a46b8c net/ncsi: Fix netlink registration
If a user unbinds and re-binds a NC-SI aware driver the kernel will
attempt to register the netlink interface at runtime. The structure is
marked __ro_after_init so registration fails spectacularly at this point.

 # echo 1e660000.ethernet > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/ftgmac100/unbind
 # echo 1e660000.ethernet > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/ftgmac100/bind
  ftgmac100 1e660000.ethernet: Read MAC address 52:54:00:12:34:56 from chip
  ftgmac100 1e660000.ethernet: Using NCSI interface
  8<--- cut here ---
  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 80a8f858
  pgd = 8c768dd6
  [80a8f858] *pgd=80a0841e(bad)
  Internal error: Oops: 80d [#1] SMP ARM
  CPU: 0 PID: 116 Comm: sh Not tainted 5.10.0-rc3-next-20201111-00003-gdd25b227ec1e #51
  Hardware name: Generic DT based system
  PC is at genl_register_family+0x1f8/0x6d4
  LR is at 0xff26ffff
  pc : [<8073f930>]    lr : [<ff26ffff>]    psr: 20000153
  sp : 8553bc80  ip : 81406244  fp : 8553bd04
  r10: 8085d12c  r9 : 80a8f73c  r8 : 85739000
  r7 : 00000017  r6 : 80a8f860  r5 : 80c8ab98  r4 : 80a8f858
  r3 : 00000000  r2 : 00000000  r1 : 81406130  r0 : 00000017
  Flags: nzCv  IRQs on  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment none
  Control: 00c5387d  Table: 85524008  DAC: 00000051
  Process sh (pid: 116, stack limit = 0x1f1988d6)
 ...
  Backtrace:
  [<8073f738>] (genl_register_family) from [<80860ac0>] (ncsi_init_netlink+0x20/0x48)
   r10:8085d12c r9:80c8fb0c r8:85739000 r7:00000000 r6:81218000 r5:85739000
   r4:8121c000
  [<80860aa0>] (ncsi_init_netlink) from [<8085d740>] (ncsi_register_dev+0x1b0/0x210)
   r5:8121c400 r4:8121c000
  [<8085d590>] (ncsi_register_dev) from [<805a8060>] (ftgmac100_probe+0x6e0/0x778)
   r10:00000004 r9:80950228 r8:8115bc10 r7:8115ab00 r6:9eae2c24 r5:813b6f88
   r4:85739000
  [<805a7980>] (ftgmac100_probe) from [<805355ec>] (platform_drv_probe+0x58/0xa8)
   r9:80c76bb0 r8:00000000 r7:80cd4974 r6:80c76bb0 r5:8115bc10 r4:00000000
  [<80535594>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<80532d58>] (really_probe+0x204/0x514)
   r7:80cd4974 r6:00000000 r5:80cd4868 r4:8115bc10

Jakub pointed out that ncsi_register_dev is obviously broken, because
there is only one family so it would never work if there was more than
one ncsi netdev.

Fix the crash by registering the netlink family once on boot, and drop
the code to unregister it.

Fixes: 955dc68cb9 ("net/ncsi: Add generic netlink family")
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201112061210.914621-1-joel@jms.id.au
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2020-11-12 17:00:13 -08:00
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6lowpan treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
9p net: 9p: initialize sun_server.sun_path to have addr's value only when addr is valid 2020-10-12 10:05:47 +02:00
802
8021q net: vlan: Fixed signedness in vlan_group_prealloc_vid() 2020-09-28 00:51:39 -07:00
appletalk appletalk: Fix atalk_proc_init() return path 2020-08-03 15:48:32 -07:00
atm net: atm: fix update of position index in lec_seq_next 2020-10-31 12:26:30 -07:00
ax25 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-07-25 17:49:04 -07:00
batman-adv genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible 2020-10-02 19:11:11 -07:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-10-29 17:22:59 -05:00
bpf bpf: fix raw_tp test run in preempt kernel 2020-09-30 08:34:08 -07:00
bpfilter Revert "bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH" 2020-10-15 12:33:24 -07:00
bridge netfilter: ebtables: Fixes dropping of small packets in bridge nat 2020-10-20 13:54:53 +02:00
caif caif: Remove duplicate macro SRVL_CTRL_PKT_SIZE 2020-09-05 15:57:05 -07:00
can can: isotp: padlen(): make const array static, makes object smaller 2020-11-03 22:30:32 +01:00
ceph libceph: clear con->out_msg on Policy::stateful_server faults 2020-10-12 15:29:27 +02:00
core devlink: Avoid overwriting port attributes of registered port 2020-11-12 08:06:57 -08:00
dcb net: DCB: Validate DCB_ATTR_DCB_BUFFER argument 2020-09-10 15:09:08 -07:00
dccp inet: remove icsk_ack.blocked 2020-09-30 14:21:30 -07:00
decnet treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
dns_resolver
dsa net: dsa: tag_ksz: KSZ8795 and KSZ9477 also use tail tags 2020-10-19 17:32:50 -07:00
ethernet
ethtool ethtool: netlink: add missing netdev_features_change() call 2020-11-09 17:15:34 -08:00
hsr genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible 2020-10-02 19:11:11 -07:00
ieee802154 genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible 2020-10-02 19:11:11 -07:00
ife
ipv4 net: udp: fix IP header access and skb lookup on Fast/frag0 UDP GRO 2020-11-12 09:55:51 -08:00
ipv6 net: udp: fix IP header access and skb lookup on Fast/frag0 UDP GRO 2020-11-12 09:55:51 -08:00
iucv net/af_iucv: fix null pointer dereference on shutdown 2020-11-10 18:08:17 -08:00
kcm net: pass a sockptr_t into ->setsockopt 2020-07-24 15:41:54 -07:00
key Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-08-02 01:02:12 -07:00
l2tp genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible 2020-10-02 19:11:11 -07:00
l3mdev net: Fix some comments 2020-08-27 07:55:59 -07:00
lapb treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
llc net: pass a sockptr_t into ->setsockopt 2020-07-24 15:41:54 -07:00
mac80211 mac80211: don't require VHT elements for HE on 2.4 GHz 2020-10-30 10:22:42 +01:00
mac802154 Merge tag 'ieee802154-for-davem-2020-09-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sschmidt/wpan 2020-09-08 20:12:58 -07:00
mpls mpls: load mpls_gso after mpls_iptunnel 2020-10-20 21:16:45 -07:00
mptcp mptcp: provide rmem[0] limit 2020-11-09 17:34:34 -08:00
ncsi net/ncsi: Fix netlink registration 2020-11-12 17:00:13 -08:00
netfilter netfilter: ipset: Update byte and packet counters regardless of whether they match 2020-10-31 11:11:11 +01:00
netlabel netlabel: fix our progress tracking in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist() 2020-11-10 15:31:46 -08:00
netlink netlink: export policy in extended ACK 2020-10-09 20:22:32 -07:00
netrom treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
nfc nfc: Ensure presence of NFC_ATTR_FIRMWARE_NAME attribute in nfc_genl_fw_download() 2020-10-20 17:06:22 -07:00
nsh treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
openvswitch net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning 2020-11-03 16:57:42 -08:00
packet net/packet: Fix a comment about network_header 2020-09-19 16:40:48 -07:00
phonet treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
psample genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible 2020-10-02 19:11:11 -07:00
qrtr net: qrtr: ns: Fix the incorrect usage of rcu_read_lock() 2020-10-06 06:01:35 -07:00
rds RDMA: Add rdma_connect_locked() 2020-10-28 09:14:49 -03:00
rfkill
rose treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
rxrpc rxrpc: Fix loss of final ack on shutdown 2020-10-15 13:28:00 +01:00
sched netem: fix zero division in tabledist 2020-10-29 11:45:47 -07:00
sctp sctp: Fix COMM_LOST/CANT_STR_ASSOC err reporting on big-endian platforms 2020-11-02 15:03:25 -08:00
smc flexible-array member conversion patches for 5.10-rc2 2020-10-31 14:31:28 -07:00
strparser
sunrpc net/sunrpc: fix useless comparison in proc_do_xprt() 2020-11-08 16:28:25 -05:00
switchdev net: switchdev: Fixed kerneldoc warning 2020-09-23 17:46:31 -07:00
tipc tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_topsrv_start() 2020-11-11 14:39:23 -08:00
tls Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-10-15 12:43:21 -07:00
unix networking changes for the 5.10 merge window 2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
vmw_vsock vsock: use ns_capable_noaudit() on socket create 2020-10-26 16:22:42 -07:00
wimax genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible 2020-10-02 19:11:11 -07:00
wireless cfg80211: regulatory: Fix inconsistent format argument 2020-10-30 10:06:56 +01:00
x25 net/x25: Fix null-ptr-deref in x25_connect 2020-11-11 14:53:56 -08:00
xdp xsk: Fix possible memory leak at socket close 2020-10-29 15:19:56 +01:00
xfrm Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec 2020-11-04 08:12:52 -08:00
compat.c iov_iter: transparently handle compat iovecs in import_iovec 2020-10-03 00:02:13 -04:00
devres.c net: devres: rename the release callback of devm_register_netdev() 2020-06-30 15:57:34 -07:00
Kconfig drop_monitor: Convert to using devlink tracepoint 2020-09-30 18:01:26 -07:00
Makefile
socket.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-10-05 18:40:01 -07:00
sysctl_net.c