This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
RDMA/mlx5: Call dev_put() after the blocking notifier
to the 6.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rdma-mlx5-call-dev_put-after-the-blocking-notifier.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 53ab5e27471f0ebcaab3276d4219ca99709a1b90
Author: Chiara Meiohas <cmeiohas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Oct 31 15:36:50 2024 +0200
RDMA/mlx5: Call dev_put() after the blocking notifier
[ Upstream commit 6d9c7b272966f13ebbf39687620f395d97f4d15d ]
Move dev_put() call to occur directly after the blocking
notifier, instead of within the event handler.
Fixes: 8d159eb2117b ("RDMA/mlx5: Use IB set_netdev and get_netdev functions")
Signed-off-by: Chiara Meiohas <cmeiohas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/342ff94b3dcbb07da1c7dab862a73933d604b717.1730381292.git.leon@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
index 4999239c8f413..32e57cc343361 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
@@ -3234,7 +3234,6 @@ static int lag_event(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long event, void *data)
}
err = ib_device_set_netdev(&dev->ib_dev, ndev,
portnum + 1);
- dev_put(ndev);
if (err)
return err;
/* Rescan gids after new netdev assignment */
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c
index 8577db3308cc5..d661267d98ffc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c
@@ -516,6 +516,7 @@ void mlx5_modify_lag(struct mlx5_lag *ldev,
blocking_notifier_call_chain(&dev0->priv.lag_nh,
MLX5_DRIVER_EVENT_ACTIVE_BACKUP_LAG_CHANGE_LOWERSTATE,
ndev);
+ dev_put(ndev);
}
}
