netdev - [PATCH] ipv6: use seq_release_private for ip6mr.c /proc entries

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Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:41:38 +0100
From:	Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>
To:	Dave Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: use seq_release_private for ip6mr.c /proc entries

In ip6mr.c, /proc entries /proc/net/ip6_mr_cache and /proc/net/ip6_mr_vif
are opened with seq_open_private(), thus seq_release_private() should be 
used to release them.
Should fix a small memory leak.

Benjamin

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6mr.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: net-2.6/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
===================================================================
--- net-2.6.orig/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
+++ net-2.6/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ static struct file_operations ip6mr_vif_
 	.open    = ip6mr_vif_open,
 	.read    = seq_read,
 	.llseek  = seq_lseek,
-	.release = seq_release,
+	.release = seq_release_private,
 };
 
 static void *ipmr_mfc_seq_start(struct seq_file *seq, loff_t *pos)
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static struct file_operations ip6mr_mfc_
 	.open    = ipmr_mfc_open,
 	.read    = seq_read,
 	.llseek  = seq_lseek,
-	.release = seq_release,
+	.release = seq_release_private,
 };
 #endif
 

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