netdev - Re: bonding: fix device leak on error in bond

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Date:	Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:52:36 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fubar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: bonding: fix device leak on error in bond_create()

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:35:52 +0100

> commit f357a5caa0ca29b74811a0fc08efb5ae4aade959
> Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> Date:   Thu Feb 25 20:21:10 2010 +0100
> 
>     bonding: fix device leak on error in bond_create()
>     
>     When the register_netdevice() call fails, the newly allocated device is
>     not freed.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

I think whether we should be checking for negative return values is
not something to gripe over, so I've applied this, thanks!
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