netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: bad error handling when adding invalid ether address

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Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:01:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	stig@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: bad error handling when adding invalid ether
 address

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:57:00 -0700

> This fixes an crash when empty bond device is added to a bridge.
> If an interface with invalid ethernet address (all zero) is added
> to a bridge, then bridge code detects it when setting up the forward
> databas entry. But the error unwind is broken, the bridge port object 
> can get freed twice: once when ref count went to zeo, and once by kfree.
> Since object is never really accessible, just free it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied, thanks.
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