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authorBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>2016-03-24 21:56:21 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-03-25 11:23:14 -0400
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netpoll: Fix extra refcount release in netpoll_cleanup()
netpoll_setup() does a dev_hold() on np->dev, the netpoll device. If it fails, it correctly does a dev_put() but leaves np->dev set. If we call netpoll_cleanup() after the failure, np->dev is still set so we do another dev_put(), which decrements the refcount an extra time. It's questionable to call netpoll_cleanup() after netpoll_setup() fails, but it can be difficult to find the problem, and we can easily avoid it in this case. The extra decrements can lead to hangs like this: unregister_netdevice: waiting for bond0 to become free. Usage count = -3 Set and clear np->dev at the points where we dev_hold() and dev_put() the device. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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