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[net-next] net: add missing dev_put() in __netdev_adjacent_dev_insert

Message ID 1382534936-23080-1-git-send-email-nikolay@redhat.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Nikolay Aleksandrov Oct. 23, 2013, 1:28 p.m. UTC
I think that a dev_put() is needed in the error path to preserve the
proper dev refcount.

CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
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 net/core/dev.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

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Veaceslav Falico Oct. 23, 2013, 1:36 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 03:28:56PM +0200, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
>I think that a dev_put() is needed in the error path to preserve the
>proper dev refcount.

True, forgot about it. Thanks for spotting this!

Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>

>
>CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
>Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
>---
> net/core/dev.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
>diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
>index 0918aad..bdffd65 100644
>--- a/net/core/dev.c
>+++ b/net/core/dev.c
>@@ -4648,6 +4648,7 @@ remove_symlinks:
>
> free_adj:
> 	kfree(adj);
>+	dev_put(adj_dev);
>
> 	return ret;
> }
>-- 
>1.8.1.4
>
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David Miller Oct. 25, 2013, 11:04 p.m. UTC | #2
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:28:56 +0200

> I think that a dev_put() is needed in the error path to preserve the
> proper dev refcount.
> 
> CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>

Applied.
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diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 0918aad..bdffd65 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4648,6 +4648,7 @@  remove_symlinks:
 
 free_adj:
 	kfree(adj);
+	dev_put(adj_dev);
 
 	return ret;
 }