Currently, netconsole cleans up the netpoll structure before disabling
the target. This approach can lead to race conditions, as message
senders (write_ext_msg() and write_msg()) check if the target is
enabled before using netpoll. The sender can validate that the target is
enabled, but, the netpoll might be de-allocated already, causing
undesired behaviours.
This patch reverses the order of operations:
1. Disable the target
2. Clean up the netpoll structure
This change eliminates the potential race condition, ensuring that
no messages are sent through a partially cleaned-up netpoll structure.
Fixes: 2382b15bcc ("netconsole: take care of NETDEV_UNREGISTER event")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240712143415.1141039-1-leitao@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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