Previous patches tried to make RIF deletion more robust and avoid use-after-free situations.
As another precaution, hold a reference on a RIF's netdev and release it when the RIF is deleted. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <pe...@mellanox.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c index 08b60d4b9492..673950933dac 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c @@ -6302,6 +6302,7 @@ mlxsw_sp_rif_create(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp, err = -ENOMEM; goto err_rif_alloc; } + dev_hold(rif->dev); rif->mlxsw_sp = mlxsw_sp; rif->ops = ops; @@ -6340,6 +6341,7 @@ mlxsw_sp_rif_create(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp, if (fid) mlxsw_sp_fid_put(fid); err_fid_get: + dev_put(rif->dev); kfree(rif); err_rif_alloc: err_rif_index_alloc: @@ -6367,6 +6369,7 @@ static void mlxsw_sp_rif_destroy(struct mlxsw_sp_rif *rif) if (fid) /* Loopback RIFs are not associated with a FID. */ mlxsw_sp_fid_put(fid); + dev_put(rif->dev); kfree(rif); vr->rif_count--; mlxsw_sp_vr_put(mlxsw_sp, vr); -- 2.20.0