[PATCH 6.12 334/567] RDMA/core: always drop device refcount in ib_del_sub_device_and_put()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:32:43Z

From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

[ Upstream commit fa3c411d21ebc26ffd175c7256c37cefa35020aa ]

Since nldev_deldev() (introduced by commit 060c642b2ab8 ("RDMA/nldev: Add
support to add/delete a sub IB device through netlink") grabs a reference
using ib_device_get_by_index() before calling ib_del_sub_device_and_put(),
we need to drop that reference before returning -EOPNOTSUPP error.

Reported-by: syzbot+881d65229ca4f9ae8c84@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=881d65229ca4f9ae8c84
Fixes: bca51197620a ("RDMA/core: Support IB sub device with type "SMI"")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/80749a85-cbe2-460c-8451-42516013f9fa@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/infiniband/core/device.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
index df2aa15a5bc9..bbc131737378 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
@@ -2823,8 +2823,10 @@ int ib_del_sub_device_and_put(struct ib_device *sub)
{
struct ib_device *parent = sub->parent;

- if (!parent)
+ if (!parent) {
+ ib_device_put(sub);
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }

mutex_lock(&parent->subdev_lock);
list_del(&sub->subdev_list);
--
2.51.0