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Message-ID: <20110611155047.GA3583@shale.localdomain>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:50:47 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
"open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] netpoll: call dev_put() on error in netpoll_setup()
There is a dev_put(ndev) missing on an error path. This was
introduced in 0c1ad04aecb "netpoll: prevent netpoll setup on slave
devices".
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
---
This is a static checker bug, and it's possible I've misunderstood
something.
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index 42ea4b0..18d9cbd 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -795,7 +795,8 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
if (ndev->master) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: %s is a slave device, aborting.\n",
np->name, np->dev_name);
- return -EBUSY;
+ err = -EBUSY;
+ goto put;
}
if (!netif_running(ndev)) {
--
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