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    netpoll: Fix extra refcount release in netpoll_cleanup() · 543e3a8d
    Bjorn Helgaas authored
    
    
    netpoll_setup() does a dev_hold() on np->dev, the netpoll device.  If it
    fails, it correctly does a dev_put() but leaves np->dev set.  If we call
    netpoll_cleanup() after the failure, np->dev is still set so we do another
    dev_put(), which decrements the refcount an extra time.
    
    It's questionable to call netpoll_cleanup() after netpoll_setup() fails,
    but it can be difficult to find the problem, and we can easily avoid it in
    this case.  The extra decrements can lead to hangs like this:
    
      unregister_netdevice: waiting for bond0 to become free. Usage count = -3
    
    Set and clear np->dev at the points where we dev_hold() and dev_put() the
    device.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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