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authorEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>2012-10-04 17:16:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-06 03:05:27 +0900
commit1b86fda9adf1b691a76f8ceddfc59d0c8386257c (patch)
treeda4fcaa9696231ff7bd84b0614706aefca7d7d6c /drivers
parent64a80f5ac78a289f66c373ace61973205d960ee7 (diff)
aoe: increase net_device reference count while using it
This change eliminates the danger that the user could rmmod the driver for a network interface that is being used for AoE by the aoe driver. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c4
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c7
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
index cc692fee7ce1..2f19b9bba913 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
@@ -494,12 +494,15 @@ static void
ejectif(struct aoetgt *t, struct aoeif *ifp)
{
struct aoeif *e;
+ struct net_device *nd;
ulong n;
+ nd = ifp->nd;
e = t->ifs + NAOEIFS - 1;
n = (e - ifp) * sizeof *ifp;
memmove(ifp, ifp+1, n);
e->nd = NULL;
+ dev_put(nd);
}
static int
@@ -1317,6 +1320,7 @@ setifbcnt(struct aoetgt *t, struct net_device *nd, int bcnt)
pr_err("aoe: device setifbcnt failure; too many interfaces.\n");
return;
}
+ dev_hold(nd);
p->nd = nd;
p->bcnt = bcnt;
}
diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c
index 3968fe6c0077..6be7b3858340 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c
@@ -295,6 +295,13 @@ freetgt(struct aoedev *d, struct aoetgt *t)
{
struct frame *f;
struct list_head *pos, *nx, *head;
+ struct aoeif *ifp;
+
+ for (ifp = t->ifs; ifp < &t->ifs[NAOEIFS]; ++ifp) {
+ if (!ifp->nd)
+ break;
+ dev_put(ifp->nd);
+ }
head = &t->ffree;
list_for_each_safe(pos, nx, head) {