On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 12:27 PM Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
>
> Instead of manually messing with parent driver module reference
> counting rely on export symbol mechanism to ensure that proper
> probe/remove chain is performed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c | 16 ++--------------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c
> index 140c54ee5916..8bfbf0231a9e 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c
> @@ -601,13 +601,6 @@ static struct bnxt_re_dev *bnxt_re_from_netdev(struct net_device *netdev)
>         return container_of(ibdev, struct bnxt_re_dev, ibdev);
>  }
>
> -static void bnxt_re_dev_unprobe(struct net_device *netdev,
> -                               struct bnxt_en_dev *en_dev)
> -{
> -       dev_put(netdev);
> -       module_put(en_dev->pdev->driver->driver.owner);
> -}
> -
>  static struct bnxt_en_dev *bnxt_re_dev_probe(struct net_device *netdev)
>  {
>         struct bnxt_en_dev *en_dev;
> @@ -628,10 +621,6 @@ static struct bnxt_en_dev *bnxt_re_dev_probe(struct net_device *netdev)
>                 return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
>         }
>
> -       /* Bump net device reference count */
> -       if (!try_module_get(pdev->driver->driver.owner))
> -               return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> -
>         dev_hold(netdev);
>
>         return en_dev;
> @@ -1558,13 +1547,12 @@ static int bnxt_re_dev_init(struct bnxt_re_dev *rdev, u8 wqe_mode)
>
>  static void bnxt_re_dev_unreg(struct bnxt_re_dev *rdev)
>  {
> -       struct bnxt_en_dev *en_dev = rdev->en_dev;
>         struct net_device *netdev = rdev->netdev;
>
>         bnxt_re_dev_remove(rdev);
>
>         if (netdev)
> -               bnxt_re_dev_unprobe(netdev, en_dev);
> +               dev_put(netdev);
>  }
>
>  static int bnxt_re_dev_reg(struct bnxt_re_dev **rdev, struct net_device *netdev)
> @@ -1586,7 +1574,7 @@ static int bnxt_re_dev_reg(struct bnxt_re_dev **rdev, struct net_device *netdev)
>         *rdev = bnxt_re_dev_add(netdev, en_dev);
>         if (!*rdev) {
>                 rc = -ENOMEM;
> -               bnxt_re_dev_unprobe(netdev, en_dev);
> +               dev_put(netdev);
>                 goto exit;
>         }
>  exit:

Acked-By: Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@broadcom.com>
> --
> 2.30.2
>


-- 
-Regards
Devesh