sit: proper dev_{hold|put} in ndo_[un]init methods
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:25:22 +0000 (12:25 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 22 May 2021 08:40:34 +0000 (10:40 +0200)
commit8b0978afec48d51ad46e42af709e287fc34f1efb
tree89a3376114e2482167c9831b321d52ee81dc9a51
parent02969df9b09bb87da3ce539f311bf1e389852393
sit: proper dev_{hold|put} in ndo_[un]init methods

commit 6289a98f0817a4a457750d6345e754838eae9439 upstream.

After adopting CONFIG_PCPU_DEV_REFCNT=n option, syzbot was able to trigger
a warning [1]

Issue here is that:

- all dev_put() should be paired with a corresponding prior dev_hold().

- A driver doing a dev_put() in its ndo_uninit() MUST also
  do a dev_hold() in its ndo_init(), only when ndo_init()
  is returning 0.

Otherwise, register_netdevice() would call ndo_uninit()
in its error path and release a refcount too soon.

Fixes: 919067cc845f ("net: add CONFIG_PCPU_DEV_REFCNT")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/sit.c