From: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: net/smc: adjust net_device refcount
Patch-mainline: v4.14-rc2
Git-commit: a6832c3acdb2ceb099ec3c385777fbaa6d5a5fd6
References: FATE#325694, LTC#167874, bsc#1113480
Summary: net/smc: SMC-R MVP
Description: Add latest upstream patches to push SMC-R to the MVP level
Upstream-Description:
net/smc: adjust net_device refcount
smc_pnet_fill_entry() uses dev_get_by_name() adding a refcount to ndev.
The following smc_pnet_enter() has to reduce the refcount if the entry
to be added exists already in the pnet table.
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
---
net/smc/smc_pnet.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/smc/smc_pnet.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_pnet.c
@@ -181,8 +181,10 @@ static int smc_pnet_enter(struct smc_pne
sizeof(new_pnetelem->ndev->name)) ||
smc_pnet_same_ibname(pnetelem,
new_pnetelem->smcibdev->ibdev->name,
- new_pnetelem->ib_port))
+ new_pnetelem->ib_port)) {
+ dev_put(pnetelem->ndev);
goto found;
+ }
}
list_add_tail(&new_pnetelem->list, &smc_pnettable.pnetlist);
rc = 0;