netdev - net_device leak after "bridge: allow creating bridge devices with netlink"?

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Date:	Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:34:18 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
To:	<shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: net_device leak after "bridge: allow creating bridge devices
	 with netlink"?

Stephen,

directly returning the result of register_netdev() from br_add_bridge()
would - to me - appear to be leaking "dev" in case of failure. Or am I
overlooking some implicit mechanism by which this would get freed?

Thanks, Jan

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