From fa2d8ff4e3522b4e05f590575d3eb8087f3a8cdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Graf Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:57:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] openvswitch: Return vport module ref before destruction Return module reference before invoking the respective vport ->destroy() function. This is needed as ovs_vport_del() is not invoked inside an RCU read side critical section so the kfree can occur immediately before returning to ovs_vport_del(). Returning the module reference before ->destroy() is safe because the module unregistration is blocked on ovs_lock which we hold while destroying the datapath. Fixes: 62b9c8d0372d ("ovs: Turn vports with dependencies into separate modules") Reported-by: Pravin Shelar Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/openvswitch/vport.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport.c b/net/openvswitch/vport.c index ec2954ffc690..067a3fff1d2c 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/vport.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/vport.c @@ -274,10 +274,8 @@ void ovs_vport_del(struct vport *vport) ASSERT_OVSL(); hlist_del_rcu(&vport->hash_node); - - vport->ops->destroy(vport); - module_put(vport->ops->owner); + vport->ops->destroy(vport); } /** -- 2.20.1