Revert "netpoll: Fix extra refcount release in netpoll_cleanup()"
This reverts commit 543e3a8da5a4c453e992d5351ef405d5e32f27d7.
Direct callers of __netpoll_setup() depend on it to set np->dev,
so we can't simply move that assignment up to netpoll_stup().
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index a57bd17..94acfc8 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -603,6 +603,7 @@
const struct net_device_ops *ops;
int err;
+ np->dev = ndev;
strlcpy(np->dev_name, ndev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
INIT_WORK(&np->cleanup_work, netpoll_async_cleanup);
@@ -669,7 +670,6 @@
goto unlock;
}
dev_hold(ndev);
- np->dev = ndev;
if (netdev_master_upper_dev_get(ndev)) {
np_err(np, "%s is a slave device, aborting\n", np->dev_name);
@@ -770,7 +770,6 @@
return 0;
put:
- np->dev = NULL;
dev_put(ndev);
unlock:
rtnl_unlock();