netdev - Re: [PATCH] fix net_device leak in vlan

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Message-Id: <20070916.164330.32095291.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:43:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	viro@....linux.org.uk
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix net_device leak in vlan

From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:35:20 +0100

> In "[VLAN]: Move device registation to seperate function" (commit
> e89fe42cd03c8fd3686df82d8390a235717a66de), a pile of code got moved
> to register_vlan_dev(), including grabbing a reference to underlying
> device.  However, original dev_hold() had been left behind, so we
> leak a reference to net_device now...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

Patch applied, thanks Al.
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