ieee802154: Drop device trackers

In order to prevent a device from disappearing when a background job was
started, dev_hold() and dev_put() calls were made. During the
stabilization phase of the scan/beacon features, it was later decided
that removing the device while a background job was ongoing was a valid use
case, and we should instead stop the background job and then remove the
device, rather than prevent the device from being removed. This is what
is currently done, which means manually reference counting the device
during background jobs is no longer needed.

Fixes: ed3557c947e1 ("ieee802154: Add support for user scanning requests")
Fixes: 9bc114504b07 ("ieee802154: Add support for user beaconing requests")
Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230214135035.1202471-7-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c
index f4a5070a9faf..2215f576ee37 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl802154.c
@@ -1453,20 +1453,14 @@ static int nl802154_trigger_scan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	else
 		request->duration = IEEE802154_MAX_SCAN_DURATION;
 
-	if (wpan_dev->netdev)
-		dev_hold(wpan_dev->netdev);
-
 	err = rdev_trigger_scan(rdev, request);
 	if (err) {
 		pr_err("Failure starting scanning (%d)\n", err);
-		goto free_device;
+		goto free_request;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
 
-free_device:
-	if (wpan_dev->netdev)
-		dev_put(wpan_dev->netdev);
 free_request:
 	kfree(request);
 
@@ -1555,9 +1549,6 @@ int nl802154_scan_done(struct wpan_phy *wpan_phy, struct wpan_dev *wpan_dev,
 	if (err == -ESRCH)
 		err = 0;
 
-	if (wpan_dev->netdev)
-		dev_put(wpan_dev->netdev);
-
 	return err;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nl802154_scan_done);
@@ -1605,21 +1596,15 @@ nl802154_send_beacons(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	else
 		request->interval = IEEE802154_MAX_SCAN_DURATION;
 
-	if (wpan_dev->netdev)
-		dev_hold(wpan_dev->netdev);
-
 	err = rdev_send_beacons(rdev, request);
 	if (err) {
 		pr_err("Failure starting sending beacons (%d)\n", err);
-		goto free_device;
+		goto free_request;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
 
-free_device:
-	if (wpan_dev->netdev)
-		dev_put(wpan_dev->netdev);
-
+free_request:
 	kfree(request);
 
 	return err;
@@ -1627,8 +1612,7 @@ free_device:
 
 void nl802154_beaconing_done(struct wpan_dev *wpan_dev)
 {
-	if (wpan_dev->netdev)
-		dev_put(wpan_dev->netdev);
+	/* NOP */
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nl802154_beaconing_done);