netdev - [PATCH 6/7] xfrm: fix netdev reference count imbalance

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Message-ID: <20240711100025.1949454-7-steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:00:24 +0200
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, Steffen Klassert
	<steffen.klassert@...unet.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] xfrm: fix netdev reference count imbalance

From: Jianbo Liu <jianbol@...dia.com>

In cited commit, netdev_tracker_alloc() is called for the newly
allocated xfrm state, but dev_hold() is missed, which causes netdev
reference count imbalance, because netdev_put() is called when the
state is freed in xfrm_dev_state_free(). Fix the issue by replacing
netdev_tracker_alloc() with netdev_hold().

Fixes: f8a70afafc17 ("xfrm: add TX datapath support for IPsec packet offload mode")
Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbol@...dia.com>
Reviewed-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...dia.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
index 936f9348e5f6..67b2a399a48a 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
@@ -1331,8 +1331,7 @@ xfrm_state_find(const xfrm_address_t *daddr, const xfrm_address_t *saddr,
 			xso->dev = xdo->dev;
 			xso->real_dev = xdo->real_dev;
 			xso->flags = XFRM_DEV_OFFLOAD_FLAG_ACQ;
-			netdev_tracker_alloc(xso->dev, &xso->dev_tracker,
-					     GFP_ATOMIC);
+			netdev_hold(xso->dev, &xso->dev_tracker, GFP_ATOMIC);
 			error = xso->dev->xfrmdev_ops->xdo_dev_state_add(x, NULL);
 			if (error) {
 				xso->dir = 0;
-- 
2.34.1