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net: sit: unregister_netdevice on newlink's error path
authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 01:29:47 +0000 (17:29 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 14:49:56 +0000 (15:49 +0100)
commit11e36dcef44e6c7ab269f79657ff3d2db9a82c15
treecdbbafeec582b7d5b8a11c6ee361e7ee1e97a369
parent594711af9f26827dea6195774b9c4ff43d86dabe
net: sit: unregister_netdevice on newlink's error path

[ Upstream commit 47e4bb147a96f1c9b4e7691e7e994e53838bfff8 ]

We need to unregister the netdevice if config failed.
.ndo_uninit takes care of most of the heavy lifting.

This was uncovered by recent commit c269a24ce057 ("net: make
free_netdev() more lenient with unregistering devices").
Previously the partially-initialized device would be left
in the system.

Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+2393580080a2da190f04@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: e2f1f072db8d ("sit: allow to configure 6rd tunnels via netlink")
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210114012947.2515313-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/sit.c