The hard_iface is referenced in the packet_type for batman-adv. Increase
the refcounter of the hard_interface for it to have an explicit reference
for it in case this functionality gets refactorted and the currently
used implicit reference for it will be removed.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
                goto err_upper;
        }
 
+       kref_get(&hard_iface->refcount);
        hard_iface->batman_adv_ptype.type = ethertype;
        hard_iface->batman_adv_ptype.func = batadv_batman_skb_recv;
        hard_iface->batman_adv_ptype.dev = hard_iface->net_dev;
        batadv_info(hard_iface->soft_iface, "Removing interface: %s\n",
                    hard_iface->net_dev->name);
        dev_remove_pack(&hard_iface->batman_adv_ptype);
+       batadv_hardif_put(hard_iface);
 
        bat_priv->num_ifaces--;
        batadv_orig_hash_del_if(hard_iface, bat_priv->num_ifaces);