From: Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com> The netvsc driver holds a pointer to the virtual function network device if managing SR-IOV association. In order to ensure that the VF network device does not disappear, it should be using dev_hold/dev_put to get a reference count.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com> --- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c index 2360e70..e74dbcc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c @@ -1262,6 +1262,8 @@ static int netvsc_register_vf(struct net_device *vf_netdev) * Take a reference on the module. */ try_module_get(THIS_MODULE); + + dev_hold(vf_netdev); net_device_ctx->vf_netdev = vf_netdev; return NOTIFY_OK; } @@ -1376,6 +1378,7 @@ static int netvsc_unregister_vf(struct net_device *vf_netdev) netdev_info(ndev, "VF unregistering: %s\n", vf_netdev->name); netvsc_inject_disable(net_device_ctx); net_device_ctx->vf_netdev = NULL; + dev_put(vf_netdev); module_put(THIS_MODULE); return NOTIFY_OK; } -- 1.7.4.1