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Sabrina Dubroca says:

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macsec: reference counting fixes

Patch 1 adds explicit reference counting on RXSCs, instead of the
current implicit reference counting using the RXSA's refcount.

Patch 2 fixes possible kernel panics during module unload caused by an
RCU callback that schedules another RCU callback, which the
rcu_barrier() added in b196c22af5 ("macsec: add rcu_barrier() on
module exit") didn't protect against.

Patch 3 fixes a refcounting issue with the underlying device for a
macsec device when link creation fails.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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