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<updated>2025-12-01T10:41:48+00:00</updated>
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<title>devlink: rate: Unset parent pointer in devl_rate_nodes_destroy</title>
<updated>2025-12-01T10:41:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shay Drory</name>
<email>shayd@nvidia.com</email>
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<published>2025-11-17T12:05:49+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f94c1a114ac209977bdf5ca841b98424295ab1f0 ]

The function devl_rate_nodes_destroy is documented to "Unset parent for
all rate objects". However, it was only calling the driver-specific
`rate_leaf_parent_set` or `rate_node_parent_set` ops and decrementing
the parent's refcount, without actually setting the
`devlink_rate-&gt;parent` pointer to NULL.

This leaves a dangling pointer in the `devlink_rate` struct, which cause
refcount error in netdevsim[1] and mlx5[2]. In addition, this is
inconsistent with the behavior of `devlink_nl_rate_parent_node_set`,
where the parent pointer is correctly cleared.

This patch fixes the issue by explicitly setting `devlink_rate-&gt;parent`
to NULL after notifying the driver, thus fulfilling the function's
documented behavior for all rate objects.

[1]
repro steps:
echo 1 &gt; /sys/bus/netdevsim/new_device
devlink dev eswitch set netdevsim/netdevsim1 mode switchdev
echo 1 &gt; /sys/bus/netdevsim/devices/netdevsim1/sriov_numvfs
devlink port function rate add netdevsim/netdevsim1/test_node
devlink port function rate set netdevsim/netdevsim1/128 parent test_node
echo 1 &gt; /sys/bus/netdevsim/del_device

dmesg:
refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory.
WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 1530 at lib/refcount.c:31 refcount_warn_saturate+0x42/0xe0
CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 1530 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.18.0-rc4+ #1 NONE
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x42/0xe0
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 devl_rate_leaf_destroy+0x8d/0x90
 __nsim_dev_port_del+0x6c/0x70 [netdevsim]
 nsim_dev_reload_destroy+0x11c/0x140 [netdevsim]
 nsim_drv_remove+0x2b/0xb0 [netdevsim]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x194/0x1f0
 bus_remove_device+0xc6/0x130
 device_del+0x159/0x3c0
 device_unregister+0x1a/0x60
 del_device_store+0x111/0x170 [netdevsim]
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12e/0x1e0
 vfs_write+0x215/0x3d0
 ksys_write+0x5f/0xd0
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0x10f0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

[2]
devlink dev eswitch set pci/0000:08:00.0 mode switchdev
devlink port add pci/0000:08:00.0 flavour pcisf pfnum 0 sfnum 1000
devlink port function rate add pci/0000:08:00.0/group1
devlink port function rate set pci/0000:08:00.0/32768 parent group1
modprobe -r mlx5_ib mlx5_fwctl mlx5_core

dmesg:
refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory.
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 16151 at lib/refcount.c:31 refcount_warn_saturate+0x42/0xe0
CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 16151 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.17.0-rc7_for_upstream_min_debug_2025_10_02_12_44 #1 NONE
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x42/0xe0
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 devl_rate_leaf_destroy+0x8d/0x90
 mlx5_esw_offloads_devlink_port_unregister+0x33/0x60 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_esw_offloads_unload_rep+0x3f/0x50 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_eswitch_unload_sf_vport+0x40/0x90 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_sf_esw_event+0xc4/0x120 [mlx5_core]
 notifier_call_chain+0x33/0xa0
 blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3b/0x50
 mlx5_eswitch_disable_locked+0x50/0x110 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_eswitch_disable+0x63/0x90 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_unload+0x1d/0x170 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_uninit_one+0xa2/0x130 [mlx5_core]
 remove_one+0x78/0xd0 [mlx5_core]
 pci_device_remove+0x39/0xa0
 device_release_driver_internal+0x194/0x1f0
 unbind_store+0x99/0xa0
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12e/0x1e0
 vfs_write+0x215/0x3d0
 ksys_write+0x5f/0xd0
 do_syscall_64+0x53/0x1f0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Fixes: d75559845078 ("devlink: Allow setting parent node of rate objects")
Signed-off-by: Shay Drory &lt;shayd@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran &lt;cjubran@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1763381149-1234377-1-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devlink: push rate related code into separate file</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T15:02:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T06:16:53+00:00</published>
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Cut out another chunk from leftover.c and put rate related code
into a separate file.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230828061657.300667-12-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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