From 993b858e37b3120ee76d9957a901cca22312ffaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jon Paul Maloy Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 22:54:46 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tipc: correct the order of stopping services at rmmod The 'signal handler' service in TIPC is a mechanism that makes it possible to postpone execution of functions, by launcing them into a job queue for execution in a separate tasklet, independent of the launching execution thread. When we do rmmod on the tipc module, this service is stopped after the network service. At the same time, the stopping of the network service may itself launch jobs for execution, with the risk that these functions may be scheduled for execution after the data structures meant to be accessed by the job have already been deleted. We have seen this happen, most often resulting in an oops. This commit ensures that the signal handler is the very first to be stopped when TIPC is shut down, so there are no surprises during the cleanup of the other services. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/tipc/core.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/tipc/core.c b/net/tipc/core.c index fd4eeeaa972a..c6d3f75a9e1b 100644 --- a/net/tipc/core.c +++ b/net/tipc/core.c @@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ err: static void tipc_core_stop(void) { tipc_netlink_stop(); - tipc_handler_stop(); tipc_cfg_stop(); tipc_subscr_stop(); tipc_nametbl_stop(); @@ -146,9 +145,10 @@ static int tipc_core_start(void) res = tipc_subscr_start(); if (!res) res = tipc_cfg_init(); - if (res) + if (res) { + tipc_handler_stop(); tipc_core_stop(); - + } return res; } @@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ static int __init tipc_init(void) static void __exit tipc_exit(void) { + tipc_handler_stop(); tipc_core_stop_net(); tipc_core_stop(); pr_info("Deactivated\n"); -- 2.30.2