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[PATCH net] devlink: region: fix snapshot id leak on kernel-allocated ids

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From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-26 17:44:19
Subsystem: devlink, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Jiri Pirko, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Status: Landed in mainline as ef8f0a1d888e on 2026-10-27.

When DEVLINK_CMD_REGION_NEW is issued without a snapshot id, the kernel
allocates one with __devlink_region_snapshot_id_get(). That helper counts
the caller as a user of the id, and the caller must release this hold
once it is done.

devlink_nl_region_new_doit() never drops it. The refcount of the id goes
1 (allocation) -> 2 (snapshot created) and stays at 2. When the snapshot
is deleted the count only drops to 1, so the id is never erased from
the snapshot_ids xarray. The id then stays in use for the lifetime of
the devlink instance: requesting a snapshot with that explicit id fails
with -EEXIST, and there is no snapshot left to delete to clean it up.

Reproducer steps:
  # devlink region new pci/0000:13:00.0/device-caps
  pci/0000:13:00.0/device-caps: snapshot 0
  # devlink region del pci/0000:13:00.0/device-caps snapshot 0
  # devlink region new pci/0000:13:00.0/device-caps snapshot 0
  kernel answers: File exists

Drop the caller's reference right after the snapshot has been created,
as the snapshot then holds its own.

Fixes: 043b3e22768d ("devlink: let kernel allocate region snapshot id")
Reported-by: Guikun Yang <redacted>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/tencent_BE912BA710539F285F9FCF28E854ABEFCD07@qq.com/ (local)
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <redacted>
---
 net/devlink/region.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/devlink/region.c b/net/devlink/region.c
index 537779bbff07..c22016f23a4a 100644
--- a/net/devlink/region.c
+++ b/net/devlink/region.c
@@ -719,6 +719,11 @@ int devlink_nl_region_new_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	if (!snapshot_id_attr) {
 		struct sk_buff *msg;
 
+		/* Drop the allocation reference, the snapshot
+		 * now holds its own.
+		 */
+		__devlink_snapshot_id_decrement(devlink, snapshot_id);
+
 		snapshot = devlink_region_snapshot_get_by_id(region,
 							     snapshot_id);
 		if (WARN_ON(!snapshot)) {
-- 
2.56.0
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