From: Roi Dayan <roid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit eb252c3a24fc5856fa62140c2f8269ddce6ce4e5 upstream. It could be neigh update flow took a refcount on peer flow so sometimes we cannot release peer flow even if parent flow is being freed now. Fixes: 5a7e5bcb663d ("net/mlx5e: Extend tc flow struct with reference counter") Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eli Britstein <elibr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c @@ -1615,8 +1615,11 @@ static void __mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peer_flow flow_flag_clear(flow, DUP); - mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_flow(flow->peer_flow->priv, flow->peer_flow); - kfree(flow->peer_flow); + if (refcount_dec_and_test(&flow->peer_flow->refcnt)) { + mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_flow(flow->peer_flow->priv, flow->peer_flow); + kfree(flow->peer_flow); + } + flow->peer_flow = NULL; }