From 5bd30d398792eb6351da2087fe81bbf755900991 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cong Wang Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:21:08 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] netpoll: fix a missing dev refcounting __dev_get_by_name() doesn't refcount the network device, so we have to do this by ourselves. Noticed by Eric. Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jiri Pirko Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/netpoll.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c index a5ad1c1c4b18..a9b10048388a 100644 --- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -1056,6 +1056,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) err = -ENODEV; goto unlock; } + dev_hold(ndev); if (netdev_master_upper_dev_get(ndev)) { np_err(np, "%s is a slave device, aborting\n", np->dev_name);