[PATCH] net-sysfs: call dev_hold if kobject_init_and_add success

From: Yue Haibing
Date: Mon Mar 18 2019 - 22:17:10 EST


From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>

In netdev_queue_add_kobject and rx_queue_add_kobject,
if sysfs_create_group failed, kobject_put will call
netdev_queue_release to decrease dev refcont, however
dev_hold has not be called. So we will see this while
unregistering dev:

unregister_netdevice: waiting for bcsh0 to become free. Usage count = -1

Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: d0d668371679 ("net: don't decrement kobj reference count on init failure")
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/net-sysfs.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index 4ff661f..8f8b7b6 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -928,6 +928,8 @@ static int rx_queue_add_kobject(struct net_device *dev, int index)
if (error)
return error;

+ dev_hold(queue->dev);
+
if (dev->sysfs_rx_queue_group) {
error = sysfs_create_group(kobj, dev->sysfs_rx_queue_group);
if (error) {
@@ -937,7 +939,6 @@ static int rx_queue_add_kobject(struct net_device *dev, int index)
}

kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
- dev_hold(queue->dev);

return error;
}
@@ -1464,6 +1465,8 @@ static int netdev_queue_add_kobject(struct net_device *dev, int index)
if (error)
return error;

+ dev_hold(queue->dev);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_BQL
error = sysfs_create_group(kobj, &dql_group);
if (error) {
@@ -1473,7 +1476,6 @@ static int netdev_queue_add_kobject(struct net_device *dev, int index)
#endif

kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
- dev_hold(queue->dev);

return 0;
}
--
2.7.0