[PATCH v4 4/6] net/netvsc: fix event callback leak on rxfilter failure

Long Li longli at microsoft.com
Tue Mar 3 21:54:07 CET 2026


In hn_dev_start(), if hn_rndis_set_rxfilter() fails after registering
the device event callback, the function returns without unregistering
the callback. Unregister it before returning on error.

Fixes: 4e9c73e96e83 ("net/netvsc: add Hyper-V network device")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Long Li <longli at microsoft.com>
---
 drivers/net/netvsc/hn_ethdev.c | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_ethdev.c
index 19721b4829..5e954b8812 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_ethdev.c
@@ -1043,16 +1043,22 @@ hn_dev_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 				      NDIS_PACKET_TYPE_BROADCAST |
 				      NDIS_PACKET_TYPE_ALL_MULTICAST |
 				      NDIS_PACKET_TYPE_DIRECTED);
-	if (error)
+	if (error) {
+		rte_dev_event_callback_unregister(NULL,
+						  netvsc_hotadd_callback, hv);
 		return error;
+	}
 
 	error = hn_vf_start(dev);
-	if (error)
+	if (error) {
 		hn_rndis_set_rxfilter(hv, 0);
+		rte_dev_event_callback_unregister(NULL,
+						  netvsc_hotadd_callback, hv);
+		return error;
+	}
 
 	/* Initialize Link state */
-	if (error == 0)
-		hn_dev_link_update(dev, 0);
+	hn_dev_link_update(dev, 0);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < hv->num_queues; i++) {
 		dev->data->tx_queue_state[i] = RTE_ETH_QUEUE_STATE_STARTED;
-- 
2.43.0



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