From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8a6c61704746d3a1e004e054504ae8d98ed95697 ] A work queue cannot just rely on the ib_device not being freed, it must hold a kref on the memory so that the BNXT_RE_FLAG_IBDEV_REGISTERED check works. Fixes: 1ac5a4047975 ("RDMA/bnxt_re: Add bnxt_re RoCE driver") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1584117207-2664-3-git-send-email-selvin.xavier@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Selvin Xavier <selvin.xavier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c index e7e8a0f494640..bc561340b9ad1 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c @@ -1604,6 +1604,7 @@ static void bnxt_re_task(struct work_struct *work) smp_mb__before_atomic(); atomic_dec(&rdev->sched_count); exit: + put_device(&rdev->ibdev.dev); kfree(re_work); } @@ -1680,6 +1681,7 @@ static int bnxt_re_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *notifier, /* Allocate for the deferred task */ re_work = kzalloc(sizeof(*re_work), GFP_ATOMIC); if (re_work) { + get_device(&rdev->ibdev.dev); re_work->rdev = rdev; re_work->event = event; re_work->vlan_dev = (real_dev == netdev ? -- 2.20.1