From: Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com>

The netvsc driver holds a pointer to the virtual function network device if
managing SR-IOV association. In order to ensure that the VF network device
does not disappear, it should be using dev_hold/dev_put to get a reference
count.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com>
---
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index 2360e70..e74dbcc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -1262,6 +1262,8 @@ static int netvsc_register_vf(struct net_device 
*vf_netdev)
         * Take a reference on the module.
         */
        try_module_get(THIS_MODULE);
+
+       dev_hold(vf_netdev);
        net_device_ctx->vf_netdev = vf_netdev;
        return NOTIFY_OK;
 }
@@ -1376,6 +1378,7 @@ static int netvsc_unregister_vf(struct net_device 
*vf_netdev)
        netdev_info(ndev, "VF unregistering: %s\n", vf_netdev->name);
        netvsc_inject_disable(net_device_ctx);
        net_device_ctx->vf_netdev = NULL;
+       dev_put(vf_netdev);
        module_put(THIS_MODULE);
        return NOTIFY_OK;
 }
-- 
1.7.4.1

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