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Linus Torvalds committed f87e6f47933
net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD Eric W. Biderman and Michal Hocko reported various memory corruptions that we suspected to be related to a LIST head located on stack, that was manipulated after thread left function frame (and eventually exited, so its stack was freed and reused). Eric Dumazet suggested the problem was probably coming from commit 443457242beb (net: factorize sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice_many) This patch fixes __dev_close() and dev_close() to properly deinit their respective LIST_HEAD(single) before exiting. References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/16/304 References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/14/223 Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Tested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reported-by: Eric W. Biderman <ebiderman@xmission.com> Tested-by: Eric W. Biderman <ebiderman@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>