From: Cosmin Ratiu PSP is unregistered twice in: _mlx5e_remove -> mlx5e_psp_unregister mlx5e_nic_cleanup -> mlx5e_psp_unregister This leads to a refcount underflow in some conditions: ------------[ cut here ]------------ refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free. WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1694 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xd8/0xe0 [...] mlx5e_psp_unregister+0x26/0x50 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_nic_cleanup+0x26/0x90 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_remove+0xe6/0x1f0 [mlx5_core] auxiliary_bus_remove+0x18/0x30 device_release_driver_internal+0x194/0x1f0 bus_remove_device+0xc6/0x130 device_del+0x159/0x3c0 mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0xbc/0x2a0 [mlx5_core] [...] Do not directly remove psp from the _mlx5e_remove path, the PSP cleanup happens as part of profile cleanup. Fixes: 89ee2d92f66c ("net/mlx5e: Support PSP offload functionality") Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c index 5e17eae81f4b..1545f9c008f4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c @@ -6805,7 +6805,6 @@ static void _mlx5e_remove(struct auxiliary_device *adev) * is already unregistered before changing to NIC profile. */ if (priv->netdev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED) { - mlx5e_psp_unregister(priv); unregister_netdev(priv->netdev); _mlx5e_suspend(adev, false); } else { -- 2.31.1