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[RFC,bluetooth-next,06/20] 6lowpan: hold netdev while unregister

Message ID 20160711195044.25343-7-aar@pengutronix.de (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Alexander Aring July 11, 2016, 7:50 p.m. UTC
I saw that unregister_netdevice will also free the netdev by running
dev_put. This may clash run debugfs exist, because it use netdevice
private data room.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aar@pengutronix.de>
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 net/6lowpan/core.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/net/6lowpan/core.c b/net/6lowpan/core.c
index 5945f7e..00ffab3 100644
--- a/net/6lowpan/core.c
+++ b/net/6lowpan/core.c
@@ -62,8 +62,10 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL(lowpan_register_netdev);
 
 void lowpan_unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
 {
+	dev_hold(dev);
 	unregister_netdevice(dev);
 	lowpan_dev_debugfs_exit(dev);
+	dev_put(dev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lowpan_unregister_netdevice);