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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Hostap: copying wrong data prism2_ioctl_giwaplist()</title>
<updated>2013-08-29T16:42:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-09T09:52:31+00:00</published>
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commit 909bd5926d474e275599094acad986af79671ac9 upstream.

We want the data stored in "addr" and "qual", but the extra ampersands
mean we are copying stack data instead.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 909bd5926d474e275599094acad986af79671ac9 upstream.

We want the data stored in "addr" and "qual", but the extra ampersands
mean we are copying stack data instead.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>zd1201: do not use stack as URB transfer_buffer</title>
<updated>2013-08-29T16:42:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jussi Kivilinna</name>
<email>jussi.kivilinna@iki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-06T11:28:42+00:00</published>
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commit 1206ff4ff9d2ef7468a355328bc58ac6ebf5be44 upstream.

Patch fixes zd1201 not to use stack as URB transfer_buffer. URB buffers need
to be DMA-able, which stack is not.

Patch is only compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna &lt;jussi.kivilinna@iki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1206ff4ff9d2ef7468a355328bc58ac6ebf5be44 upstream.

Patch fixes zd1201 not to use stack as URB transfer_buffer. URB buffers need
to be DMA-able, which stack is not.

Patch is only compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna &lt;jussi.kivilinna@iki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>usbnet: do not pretend to support SG/TSO</title>
<updated>2013-08-11T22:38:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-24T00:15:54+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 20f0170377264e8449b6987041f0bcc4d746d3ed ]

usbnet doesn't support yet SG, so drivers should not advertise SG or TSO
capabilities, as they allow TCP stack to build large TSO packets that
need to be linearized and might use order-5 pages.

This adds an extra copy overhead and possible allocation failures.

Current code ignore skb_linearize() return code so crashes are even
possible.

Best is to not pretend SG/TSO is supported, and add this again when/if
usbnet really supports SG for devices who could get a performance gain.

Based on a prior patch from Freddy Xin &lt;freddy@asix.com.tw&gt;

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 20f0170377264e8449b6987041f0bcc4d746d3ed ]

usbnet doesn't support yet SG, so drivers should not advertise SG or TSO
capabilities, as they allow TCP stack to build large TSO packets that
need to be linearized and might use order-5 pages.

This adds an extra copy overhead and possible allocation failures.

Current code ignore skb_linearize() return code so crashes are even
possible.

Best is to not pretend SG/TSO is supported, and add this again when/if
usbnet really supports SG for devices who could get a performance gain.

Based on a prior patch from Freddy Xin &lt;freddy@asix.com.tw&gt;

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arcnet: cleanup sizeof parameter</title>
<updated>2013-08-11T22:38:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-19T05:48:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 087d273caf4f7d3f2159256f255f1f432bc84a5b ]

This patch doesn't change the compiled code because ARC_HDR_SIZE is 4
and sizeof(int) is 4, but the intent was to use the header size and not
the sizeof the header size.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 087d273caf4f7d3f2159256f255f1f432bc84a5b ]

This patch doesn't change the compiled code because ARC_HDR_SIZE is 4
and sizeof(int) is 4, but the intent was to use the header size and not
the sizeof the header size.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mwifiex: Add missing endian conversion.</title>
<updated>2013-08-11T22:38:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomasz Moń</name>
<email>desowin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-23T05:42:49+00:00</published>
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commit 83e612f632c3897be29ef02e0472f6d63e258378 upstream.

Both type and pkt_len variables are in host endian and these should be in
Little Endian in the payload.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Moń &lt;desowin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bing Zhao &lt;bzhao@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 83e612f632c3897be29ef02e0472f6d63e258378 upstream.

Both type and pkt_len variables are in host endian and these should be in
Little Endian in the payload.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Moń &lt;desowin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bing Zhao &lt;bzhao@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rt2x00: fix stop queue</title>
<updated>2013-08-11T22:38:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislaw Gruszka</name>
<email>stf_xl@wp.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-28T11:17:22+00:00</published>
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commit e2288b66fe7ff0288382b2af671b4da558b44472 upstream.

Since we clear QUEUE_STARTED in rt2x00queue_stop_queue(), following
call to rt2x00queue_pause_queue() reduce to noop, i.e we do not
stop queue in mac80211.

To fix that introduce rt2x00queue_pause_queue_nocheck() function,
which will stop queue in mac80211 directly.

Note that rt2x00_start_queue() explicitly set QUEUE_PAUSED bit.

Note also that reordering operations i.e. first call to
rt2x00queue_pause_queue() and then clear QUEUE_STARTED bit, will race
with rt2x00queue_unpause_queue(), so calling ieee80211_stop_queue()
directly is the only available solution to fix the problem without
major rework.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;stf_xl@wp.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e2288b66fe7ff0288382b2af671b4da558b44472 upstream.

Since we clear QUEUE_STARTED in rt2x00queue_stop_queue(), following
call to rt2x00queue_pause_queue() reduce to noop, i.e we do not
stop queue in mac80211.

To fix that introduce rt2x00queue_pause_queue_nocheck() function,
which will stop queue in mac80211 directly.

Note that rt2x00_start_queue() explicitly set QUEUE_PAUSED bit.

Note also that reordering operations i.e. first call to
rt2x00queue_pause_queue() and then clear QUEUE_STARTED bit, will race
with rt2x00queue_unpause_queue(), so calling ieee80211_stop_queue()
directly is the only available solution to fix the problem without
major rework.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;stf_xl@wp.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ath9k_htc: do some initial hardware configuration</title>
<updated>2013-08-11T22:38:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleksij Rempel</name>
<email>linux@rempel-privat.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-19T18:16:17+00:00</published>
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commit dc2a87f519a4d8cb376ab54f22b6b98a943b51ce upstream.

Currently we configure harwdare and clock, only after
interface start. In this case, if we reload module or
reboot PC without configuring adapter, firmware will freeze.
There is no software way to reset adpter.

This patch add initial configuration and set it in
disabled state, to avoid this freeze. Behaviour of this patch
should be similar to: ifconfig wlan0 up; ifconfig wlan0 down.

Bug: https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware/issues/1
Tested-by: Bo Shi &lt;cnshibo@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel &lt;linux@rempel-privat.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit dc2a87f519a4d8cb376ab54f22b6b98a943b51ce upstream.

Currently we configure harwdare and clock, only after
interface start. In this case, if we reload module or
reboot PC without configuring adapter, firmware will freeze.
There is no software way to reset adpter.

This patch add initial configuration and set it in
disabled state, to avoid this freeze. Behaviour of this patch
should be similar to: ifconfig wlan0 up; ifconfig wlan0 down.

Bug: https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware/issues/1
Tested-by: Bo Shi &lt;cnshibo@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel &lt;linux@rempel-privat.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>virtio_net: fix race in RX VQ processing</title>
<updated>2013-08-04T07:43:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-04T07:43:40+00:00</published>
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commit cbdadbbf0c790f79350a8f36029208944c5487d0 upstream

virtio net called virtqueue_enable_cq on RX path after napi_complete, so
with NAPI_STATE_SCHED clear - outside the implicit napi lock.
This violates the requirement to synchronize virtqueue_enable_cq wrt
virtqueue_add_buf.  In particular, used event can move backwards,
causing us to lose interrupts.
In a debug build, this can trigger panic within START_USE.

Jason Wang reports that he can trigger the races artificially,
by adding udelay() in virtqueue_enable_cb() after virtio_mb().

However, we must call napi_complete to clear NAPI_STATE_SCHED before
polling the virtqueue for used buffers, otherwise napi_schedule_prep in
a callback will fail, causing us to lose RX events.

To fix, call virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare with NAPI_STATE_SCHED
set (under napi lock), later call virtqueue_poll with
NAPI_STATE_SCHED clear (outside the lock).

Reported-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[wg: Backported to 3.2]
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Gloger &lt;wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit cbdadbbf0c790f79350a8f36029208944c5487d0 upstream

virtio net called virtqueue_enable_cq on RX path after napi_complete, so
with NAPI_STATE_SCHED clear - outside the implicit napi lock.
This violates the requirement to synchronize virtqueue_enable_cq wrt
virtqueue_add_buf.  In particular, used event can move backwards,
causing us to lose interrupts.
In a debug build, this can trigger panic within START_USE.

Jason Wang reports that he can trigger the races artificially,
by adding udelay() in virtqueue_enable_cb() after virtio_mb().

However, we must call napi_complete to clear NAPI_STATE_SCHED before
polling the virtqueue for used buffers, otherwise napi_schedule_prep in
a callback will fail, causing us to lose RX events.

To fix, call virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare with NAPI_STATE_SCHED
set (under napi lock), later call virtqueue_poll with
NAPI_STATE_SCHED clear (outside the lock).

Reported-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[wg: Backported to 3.2]
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Gloger &lt;wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ifb: fix oops when loading the ifb failed</title>
<updated>2013-07-28T23:18:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>dingtianhong</name>
<email>dingtianhong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-11T11:04:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f2966cd5691058b8674a20766525bedeaea9cbcf ]

If __rtnl_link_register() return faild when loading the ifb, it will
take the wrong path and get oops, so fix it just like dummy.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f2966cd5691058b8674a20766525bedeaea9cbcf ]

If __rtnl_link_register() return faild when loading the ifb, it will
take the wrong path and get oops, so fix it just like dummy.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dummy: fix oops when loading the dummy failed</title>
<updated>2013-07-28T23:18:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>dingtianhong</name>
<email>dingtianhong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-11T11:04:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2c8a01894a12665d8059fad8f0a293c98a264121 ]

We rename the dummy in modprobe.conf like this:

install dummy0 /sbin/modprobe -o dummy0 --ignore-install dummy
install dummy1 /sbin/modprobe -o dummy1 --ignore-install dummy

We got oops when we run the command:

modprobe dummy0
modprobe dummy1

------------[ cut here ]------------

[ 3302.187584] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
[ 3302.195411] IP: [&lt;ffffffff813fe62a&gt;] __rtnl_link_unregister+0x9a/0xd0
[ 3302.201844] PGD 85c94a067 PUD 8517bd067 PMD 0
[ 3302.206305] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[ 3302.299737] task: ffff88105ccea300 ti: ffff880eba4a0000 task.ti: ffff880eba4a0000
[ 3302.307186] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff813fe62a&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff813fe62a&gt;] __rtnl_link_unregister+0x9a/0xd0
[ 3302.316044] RSP: 0018:ffff880eba4a1dd8  EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 3302.321332] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff81a9d738 RCX: 0000000000000002
[ 3302.328436] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffffa04d602c RDI: ffff880eba4a1dd8
[ 3302.335541] RBP: ffff880eba4a1e18 R08: dead000000200200 R09: dead000000100100
[ 3302.342644] R10: 0000000000000080 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffffffff81a9d788
[ 3302.349748] R13: ffffffffa04d7020 R14: ffffffff81a9d670 R15: ffff880eba4a1dd8
[ 3302.364910] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 3302.370630] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 000000085e15e000 CR4: 00000000000427e0
[ 3302.377734] DR0: 0000000000000003 DR1: 00000000000000b0 DR2: 0000000000000001
[ 3302.384838] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 3302.391940] Stack:
[ 3302.393944]  ffff880eba4a1dd8 ffff880eba4a1dd8 ffff880eba4a1e18 ffffffffa04d70c0
[ 3302.401350]  00000000ffffffef ffffffffa01a8000 0000000000000000 ffffffff816111c8
[ 3302.408758]  ffff880eba4a1e48 ffffffffa01a80be ffff880eba4a1e48 ffffffffa04d70c0
[ 3302.416164] Call Trace:
[ 3302.418605]  [&lt;ffffffffa01a8000&gt;] ? 0xffffffffa01a7fff
[ 3302.423727]  [&lt;ffffffffa01a80be&gt;] dummy_init_module+0xbe/0x1000 [dummy0]
[ 3302.430405]  [&lt;ffffffffa01a8000&gt;] ? 0xffffffffa01a7fff
[ 3302.435535]  [&lt;ffffffff81000322&gt;] do_one_initcall+0x152/0x1b0
[ 3302.441263]  [&lt;ffffffff810ab24b&gt;] do_init_module+0x7b/0x200
[ 3302.446824]  [&lt;ffffffff810ad3d2&gt;] load_module+0x4e2/0x530
[ 3302.452215]  [&lt;ffffffff8127ae40&gt;] ? ddebug_dyndbg_boot_param_cb+0x60/0x60
[ 3302.458979]  [&lt;ffffffff810ad5f1&gt;] SyS_init_module+0xd1/0x130
[ 3302.464627]  [&lt;ffffffff814b9652&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 3302.490090] RIP  [&lt;ffffffff813fe62a&gt;] __rtnl_link_unregister+0x9a/0xd0
[ 3302.496607]  RSP &lt;ffff880eba4a1dd8&gt;
[ 3302.500084] CR2: 0000000000000008
[ 3302.503466] ---[ end trace 8342d49cd49f78ed ]---

The reason is that when loading dummy, if __rtnl_link_register() return failed,
the init_module should return and avoid take the wrong path.

Signed-off-by: Tan Xiaojun &lt;tanxiaojun@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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We rename the dummy in modprobe.conf like this:

install dummy0 /sbin/modprobe -o dummy0 --ignore-install dummy
install dummy1 /sbin/modprobe -o dummy1 --ignore-install dummy

We got oops when we run the command:

modprobe dummy0
modprobe dummy1

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[ 3302.187584] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
[ 3302.195411] IP: [&lt;ffffffff813fe62a&gt;] __rtnl_link_unregister+0x9a/0xd0
[ 3302.201844] PGD 85c94a067 PUD 8517bd067 PMD 0
[ 3302.206305] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[ 3302.299737] task: ffff88105ccea300 ti: ffff880eba4a0000 task.ti: ffff880eba4a0000
[ 3302.307186] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff813fe62a&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff813fe62a&gt;] __rtnl_link_unregister+0x9a/0xd0
[ 3302.316044] RSP: 0018:ffff880eba4a1dd8  EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 3302.321332] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff81a9d738 RCX: 0000000000000002
[ 3302.328436] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffffa04d602c RDI: ffff880eba4a1dd8
[ 3302.335541] RBP: ffff880eba4a1e18 R08: dead000000200200 R09: dead000000100100
[ 3302.342644] R10: 0000000000000080 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffffffff81a9d788
[ 3302.349748] R13: ffffffffa04d7020 R14: ffffffff81a9d670 R15: ffff880eba4a1dd8
[ 3302.364910] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 3302.370630] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 000000085e15e000 CR4: 00000000000427e0
[ 3302.377734] DR0: 0000000000000003 DR1: 00000000000000b0 DR2: 0000000000000001
[ 3302.384838] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 3302.391940] Stack:
[ 3302.393944]  ffff880eba4a1dd8 ffff880eba4a1dd8 ffff880eba4a1e18 ffffffffa04d70c0
[ 3302.401350]  00000000ffffffef ffffffffa01a8000 0000000000000000 ffffffff816111c8
[ 3302.408758]  ffff880eba4a1e48 ffffffffa01a80be ffff880eba4a1e48 ffffffffa04d70c0
[ 3302.416164] Call Trace:
[ 3302.418605]  [&lt;ffffffffa01a8000&gt;] ? 0xffffffffa01a7fff
[ 3302.423727]  [&lt;ffffffffa01a80be&gt;] dummy_init_module+0xbe/0x1000 [dummy0]
[ 3302.430405]  [&lt;ffffffffa01a8000&gt;] ? 0xffffffffa01a7fff
[ 3302.435535]  [&lt;ffffffff81000322&gt;] do_one_initcall+0x152/0x1b0
[ 3302.441263]  [&lt;ffffffff810ab24b&gt;] do_init_module+0x7b/0x200
[ 3302.446824]  [&lt;ffffffff810ad3d2&gt;] load_module+0x4e2/0x530
[ 3302.452215]  [&lt;ffffffff8127ae40&gt;] ? ddebug_dyndbg_boot_param_cb+0x60/0x60
[ 3302.458979]  [&lt;ffffffff810ad5f1&gt;] SyS_init_module+0xd1/0x130
[ 3302.464627]  [&lt;ffffffff814b9652&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 3302.490090] RIP  [&lt;ffffffff813fe62a&gt;] __rtnl_link_unregister+0x9a/0xd0
[ 3302.496607]  RSP &lt;ffff880eba4a1dd8&gt;
[ 3302.500084] CR2: 0000000000000008
[ 3302.503466] ---[ end trace 8342d49cd49f78ed ]---

The reason is that when loading dummy, if __rtnl_link_register() return failed,
the init_module should return and avoid take the wrong path.

Signed-off-by: Tan Xiaojun &lt;tanxiaojun@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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