linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.3] vrf: Fix memory leak on registration failure in vrf

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Message-Id: <20151215.124807.81023600107235690.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:48:07 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, dsa@...ulusnetworks.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.3] vrf: Fix memory leak on registration failure in
 vrf_newlink()

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:12:43 +0000

> The backported version of commit 7f109f7cc371 ("vrf: fix double free
> and memory corruption on register_netdevice failure") incorrectly
> removed a kfree() from the failure path as well as the free_netdev().
> Add that back.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

Thanks for catching this:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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