Dev_hold has to be called always in netdev_queue_add_kobject.
Otherwise usage count drops below 0 in case of failure in
kobject_init_and_add.
Fixes:
b8eb718348b8 ("net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
struct kobject *kobj = &queue->kobj;
int error = 0;
+ /* Kobject_put later will trigger netdev_queue_release call
+ * which decreases dev refcount: Take that reference here
+ */
+ dev_hold(queue->dev);
+
kobj->kset = dev->queues_kset;
error = kobject_init_and_add(kobj, &netdev_queue_ktype, NULL,
"tx-%u", index);
if (error)
goto err;
- dev_hold(queue->dev);
-
#ifdef CONFIG_BQL
error = sysfs_create_group(kobj, &dql_group);
if (error)