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authorRafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>2019-02-28 22:57:33 +0100
committerJacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>2019-03-26 20:25:37 +0100
commit4cb6560514fa19d556954b88128f3846fee66a03 (patch)
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parent9e98c678c2d6ae3a17cb2de55d17f69dddaa231b (diff)
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leds: trigger: netdev: fix refcnt leak on interface rename
Renaming a netdev-trigger-tracked interface was resulting in an
unbalanced dev_hold().

Example:
> iw phy phy0 interface add foo type __ap
> echo netdev > trigger
> echo foo > device_name
> ip link set foo name bar
> iw dev bar del
[  237.355366] unregister_netdevice: waiting for bar to become free. Usage count = 1
[  247.435362] unregister_netdevice: waiting for bar to become free. Usage count = 1
[  257.545366] unregister_netdevice: waiting for bar to become free. Usage count = 1

Above problem was caused by trigger checking a dev->name which obviously
changes after renaming an interface. It meant missing all further events
including the NETDEV_UNREGISTER which is required for calling dev_put().

This change fixes that by:
1) Comparing device struct *address* for notification-filtering purposes
2) Dropping unneeded NETDEV_CHANGENAME code (no behavior change)

Fixes: 06f502f57d0d ("leds: trigger: Introduce a NETDEV trigger")
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>
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