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authorRafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>2019-02-28 22:57:33 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-05-04 09:20:21 +0200
commit04cac1dce92380a78e1b908cb625ab25d123ade4 (patch)
tree6bdc4e7ce2eb24a1a83387952ee9e55950d243c2 /arch/x86/realmode
parent0018c21f34d666c2755460123d9f37a02dc8ce60 (diff)
leds: trigger: netdev: fix refcnt leak on interface rename
[ Upstream commit 4cb6560514fa19d556954b88128f3846fee66a03 ] Renaming a netdev-trigger-tracked interface was resulting in an unbalanced dev_hold(). Example: > iw phy phy0 interface add foo type __ap > echo netdev > trigger > echo foo > device_name > ip link set foo name bar > iw dev bar del [ 237.355366] unregister_netdevice: waiting for bar to become free. Usage count = 1 [ 247.435362] unregister_netdevice: waiting for bar to become free. Usage count = 1 [ 257.545366] unregister_netdevice: waiting for bar to become free. Usage count = 1 Above problem was caused by trigger checking a dev->name which obviously changes after renaming an interface. It meant missing all further events including the NETDEV_UNREGISTER which is required for calling dev_put(). This change fixes that by: 1) Comparing device struct *address* for notification-filtering purposes 2) Dropping unneeded NETDEV_CHANGENAME code (no behavior change) Fixes: 06f502f57d0d ("leds: trigger: Introduce a NETDEV trigger") Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin (Microsoft) <sashal@kernel.org>
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