From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> There is a chance that device will be removed during device query operations and it will cause to kernel panic in the flows which doesn't hold lists_rwsem semaphore. Fixes: e5c9469efcb1 ("RDMA/netlink: Add nldev device doit implementation") Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c | 25 +++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c index 2b631307349d..e3033d7a4029 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c @@ -141,36 +141,41 @@ static int nldev_get_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, struct ib_device *device; struct sk_buff *msg; u32 index; - int err; + int ret = -ENOMEM; - err = nlmsg_parse(nlh, 0, tb, RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_MAX - 1, + ret = nlmsg_parse(nlh, 0, tb, RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_MAX - 1, nldev_policy, extack); - if (err || !tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_INDEX]) + if (ret || !tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_INDEX]) return -EINVAL; index = nla_get_u32(tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_INDEX]); - device = __ib_device_get_by_index(index); + device = ib_device_get_by_index(index); if (!device) return -EINVAL; msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); if (!msg) - return -ENOMEM; + goto err; nlh = nlmsg_put(msg, NETLINK_CB(skb).portid, nlh->nlmsg_seq, RDMA_NL_GET_TYPE(RDMA_NL_NLDEV, RDMA_NLDEV_CMD_GET), 0, 0); - err = fill_dev_info(msg, device); - if (err) { - nlmsg_free(msg); - return err; - } + ret = fill_dev_info(msg, device); + if (ret) + goto err_free; nlmsg_end(msg, nlh); + put_device(&device->dev); return rdma_nl_unicast(msg, NETLINK_CB(skb).portid); + +err_free: + nlmsg_free(msg); +err: + put_device(&device->dev); + return ret; } static int _nldev_get_dumpit(struct ib_device *device, -- 2.15.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html