Commit 0759e552 authored by Sabrina Dubroca's avatar Sabrina Dubroca Committed by David S. Miller

macsec: fix negative refcnt on parent link

When creation of a macsec device fails because an identical device
already exists on this link, the current code decrements the refcnt on
the parent link (in ->destructor for the macsec device), but it had not
been incremented yet.

Move the dev_hold(parent_link) call earlier during macsec device
creation.

Fixes: c09440f7 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 36b232c8
......@@ -3179,6 +3179,8 @@ static int macsec_newlink(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev,
if (err < 0)
return err;
dev_hold(real_dev);
/* need to be already registered so that ->init has run and
* the MAC addr is set
*/
......@@ -3207,8 +3209,6 @@ static int macsec_newlink(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev,
macsec_generation++;
dev_hold(real_dev);
return 0;
del_dev:
......
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