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[net-next] rocker: fix a neigh entry leak issue

Message ID 1431587190-28901-1-git-send-email-ying.xue@windriver.com
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Ying Xue May 14, 2015, 7:06 a.m. UTC
Once we get a neighbour through looking up arp cache or creating a
new one in rocker_port_ipv4_resolve(), the neighbour's refcount is
already taken. But we don't put the refcount again after it's used,
which make the neighbour entry leaked.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Jiri Pirko May 14, 2015, 8:44 a.m. UTC | #1
Thu, May 14, 2015 at 09:06:30AM CEST, ying.xue@windriver.com wrote:
>Once we get a neighbour through looking up arp cache or creating a
>new one in rocker_port_ipv4_resolve(), the neighbour's refcount is
>already taken. But we don't put the refcount again after it's used,
>which make the neighbour entry leaked.
>
>Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
index 1fc006b..7504540 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
@@ -3053,6 +3053,7 @@  static int rocker_port_ipv4_resolve(struct rocker_port *rocker_port,
 	else
 		neigh_event_send(n, NULL);
 
+	neigh_release(n);
 	return err;
 }