From: Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com
[ Upstream commit 989a1db06eb18ff605377eec87e18d795e0ec74b ]
I got a warining report:
br_sysfs_addbr: can't create group bridge4/bridge ------------[ cut here ]------------ sysfs group 'bridge' not found for kobject 'bridge4' WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 9004 at fs/sysfs/group.c:279 sysfs_remove_group fs/sysfs/group.c:279 [inline] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 9004 at fs/sysfs/group.c:279 sysfs_remove_group+0x153/0x1b0 fs/sysfs/group.c:270 Modules linked in: iptable_nat ... Call Trace: br_dev_delete+0x112/0x190 net/bridge/br_if.c:384 br_dev_newlink net/bridge/br_netlink.c:1381 [inline] br_dev_newlink+0xdb/0x100 net/bridge/br_netlink.c:1362 __rtnl_newlink+0xe11/0x13f0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3441 rtnl_newlink+0x64/0xa0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3500 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x385/0x980 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5562 netlink_rcv_skb+0x134/0x3d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2494 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1304 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x4a0/0x6a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1330 netlink_sendmsg+0x793/0xc80 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1919 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0x139/0x170 net/socket.c:671 ____sys_sendmsg+0x658/0x7d0 net/socket.c:2353 ___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x170 net/socket.c:2407 __sys_sendmsg+0xd3/0x190 net/socket.c:2440 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
In br_device_event(), if the bridge sysfs fails to be added, br_device_event() should return error. This can prevent warining when removing bridge sysfs that do not exist.
Fixes: bb900b27a2f4 ("bridge: allow creating bridge devices with netlink") Reported-by: Hulk Robot hulkci@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com Tested-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay@nvidia.com Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay@nvidia.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211122921.40386-1-wanghai38@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/bridge/br.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/bridge/br.c b/net/bridge/br.c index 8a8f9e5f264f2..cccbb9bf3ca4e 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br.c +++ b/net/bridge/br.c @@ -43,7 +43,10 @@ static int br_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused, unsigned long event, v
if (event == NETDEV_REGISTER) { /* register of bridge completed, add sysfs entries */ - br_sysfs_addbr(dev); + err = br_sysfs_addbr(dev); + if (err) + return notifier_from_errno(err); + return NOTIFY_DONE; } }