The siw_connect can go to err in below after cep is allocated successfully: 1. If siw_cm_alloc_work returns failure. In this case socket is not assoicated with cep so siw_cep_put can't be called by siw_socket_disassoc. We need to call siw_cep_put twice since cep->kref is increased once after it was initialized. 2. If siw_cm_queue_work can't find a work, which means siw_cep_get is not called in siw_cm_queue_work, so cep->kref is increased twice by siw_cep_get and when associate socket with cep after it was initialized. So we need to call siw_cep_put three times (one in siw_socket_disassoc). 3. siw_send_mpareqrep returns error, this scenario is similar as 2. So we need to remove one siw_cep_put in the error path. Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c index da530c0404da..a2605178f4ed 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_cm.c @@ -1501,7 +1501,6 @@ int siw_connect(struct iw_cm_id *id, struct iw_cm_conn_param *params) cep->cm_id = NULL; id->rem_ref(id); - siw_cep_put(cep); qp->cep = NULL; siw_cep_put(cep); -- 2.35.3