netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: clean up dev_snmp6 proc entry when we fail to initialize inet6

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Date:	Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:32:56 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sd@...asysnail.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, dvyukov@...gle.com,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: clean up dev_snmp6 proc entry when we fail
 to initialize inet6_dev

From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Date: Tue,  3 Nov 2015 19:09:09 +0100

> In ipv6_add_dev, when addrconf_sysctl_register fails, we do not clean up
> the dev_snmp6 entry that we have already registered for this device.
> 
> It is safe to call snmp6_unregister_dev unconditionally from
> in6_dev_finish_destroy, so do it.
> 
> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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