[PATCH net 2/2] net/mlx5e: Avoid unregistering PSP twice
From: Tariq Toukan
Date: Mon Dec 01 2025 - 10:15:00 EST
From: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@xxxxxxxxxx>
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 <cratiu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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