Re: [PATCH net-next v5 23/25] ovpn: notify userspace when a peer is deleted

[Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>]

2024-06-27, 15:08:41 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
> index 2105bcc981fa..23418204fa8e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
> @@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ void ovpn_peer_release_kref(struct kref *kref)
>  
>  	ovpn_peer_release(peer);
>  	netdev_put(peer->ovpn->dev, NULL);

I don't think you can access peer->ovpn once you release that
reference, if this peer was holding the last reference the netdev (and
the ovpn struct) could be gone while we're accessing it in
ovpn_nl_notify_del_peer.

> +	ovpn_nl_notify_del_peer(peer);
>  	kfree_rcu(peer, rcu);
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.h b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.h
> index 8d24a8fdd03e..971603a70090 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ovpn/peer.h
> @@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ static inline bool ovpn_peer_hold(struct ovpn_peer *peer)
>  
>  void ovpn_peer_release(struct ovpn_peer *peer);
>  void ovpn_peer_release_kref(struct kref *kref);
> +void ovpn_peer_release(struct ovpn_peer *peer);

nit: dupe of 2 lines before

-- 
Sabrina