Syzbot report the following issue: infiniband syj1: RDMA CMA: cma_listen_on_dev, error -98 unregister_netdevice: waiting for vlan0 to become free. Usage count = 2 The causes are as follows: rdma_listen() rdma_bind_addr() cma_acquire_dev_by_src_ip() cma_attach_to_dev() _cma_attach_to_dev() cma_dev_get() cma_check_port() <--The return value is -98, goto err err: <-- The error handling here is missing the operation of cma_release_dev. To fix, add cma_release_dev to error handing. Fixes: e51060f08a61 ("IB: IP address based RDMA connection manager") Reported-by: syzbot+5e70d01ee8985ae62a3b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wang Yufen <wangyufen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c index 26d1772..3a50a8e 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c @@ -4049,6 +4049,9 @@ int rdma_listen(struct rdma_cm_id *id, int backlog) return 0; err: id_priv->backlog = 0; + if (id_priv->cma_dev) + cma_release_dev(id_priv); + /* * All the failure paths that lead here will not allow the req_handler's * to have run. -- 1.8.3.1