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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2015-09-24 20:36:33 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-09-24 23:04:53 -0700
commit9861f72074c77a8a065622c1be7e9c4277e600eb (patch)
treecba58d3959606f2f4d7dd5ea95f8a79ac73fd2ad /net/core/net-sysfs.c
parent38737e490d4ea91660d3cec83ef88c4e6d360ae4 (diff)
net: fix net_device refcounting
of_find_net_device_by_node() uses class_find_device() internally to lookup the corresponding network device. class_find_device() returns a reference to the embedded struct device, with its refcount incremented. Add a comment to the definition in net/core/net-sysfs.c indicating the need to drop this refcount, and fix the DSA code to drop this refcount when the OF-generated platform data is cleaned up and freed. Also arrange for the ref to be dropped when handling errors. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/net-sysfs.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/net-sysfs.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index b279077c3089..805a95a48107 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -1481,6 +1481,15 @@ static int of_dev_node_match(struct device *dev, const void *data)
return ret == 0 ? dev->of_node == data : ret;
}
+/*
+ * of_find_net_device_by_node - lookup the net device for the device node
+ * @np: OF device node
+ *
+ * Looks up the net_device structure corresponding with the device node.
+ * If successful, returns a pointer to the net_device with the embedded
+ * struct device refcount incremented by one, or NULL on failure. The
+ * refcount must be dropped when done with the net_device.
+ */
struct net_device *of_find_net_device_by_node(struct device_node *np)
{
struct device *dev;