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Commit 739840d5 authored by James Chapman's avatar James Chapman Committed by David S. Miller
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ppp: fix segfaults introduced by netdev_priv changes



This patch fixes a segfault in ppp_shutdown_interface() and
ppp_destroy_interface() when a PPP connection is closed. I bisected
the problem to the following commit:

  commit c8019bf3
  Author: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
  Date:   Thu Nov 20 04:24:17 2008 -0800

    netdevice ppp: Convert directly reference of netdev->priv

    1. Use netdev_priv(dev) to replace dev->priv.
    2. Alloc netdev's private data by alloc_netdev().

Signed-off-by: default avatarWang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The original ppp_generic code treated the netdev and struct ppp as
independent data structures which were freed separately. In moving the
ppp struct into the netdev, it is now possible for the private data to
be freed before the call to ppp_shutdown_interface(), which is bad.

The kfree(ppp) in ppp_destroy_interface() is also wrong; presumably
ppp hasn't worked since the above commit.

The following patch fixes both problems.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 1b08534e
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