From: Mark Zhang <markzhang@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b856101a1774b5f1c8c99e8dfdef802856520732 upstream. In failure flow, the reference counter acquired was not released, and the following error was reported: drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c:3373 cm_lap_handler() warn: inconsistent refcounting 'cm_id_priv->refcount.refs.counter': Fixes: 7345201c3963 ("IB/cm: Improve the calling of cm_init_av_for_lap and cm_init_av_by_path") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7615f23bbb5c5b66d03f6fa13e1c99d51dae6916.1642581448.git.leonro@xxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Zhang <markzhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c @@ -3322,7 +3322,7 @@ static int cm_lap_handler(struct cm_work ret = cm_init_av_by_path(param->alternate_path, NULL, &alt_av); if (ret) { rdma_destroy_ah_attr(&ah_attr); - return -EINVAL; + goto deref; } spin_lock_irq(&cm_id_priv->lock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from markzhang@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/ib-cm-release-previously-acquired-reference-counter-in-the-cm_id_priv.patch