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-rw-r--r--net/core/netpoll.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index a5ad1c1c4b18..a9b10048388a 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -1056,6 +1056,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
err = -ENODEV;
goto unlock;
}
+ dev_hold(ndev);
if (netdev_master_upper_dev_get(ndev)) {
np_err(np, "%s is a slave device, aborting\n", np->dev_name);