netdev - Re: [PATCH next v2] ipvlan: Fix failure path in dev registration during link creation

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Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2016 17:23:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mahesh@...dewar.net
Cc:	maheshb@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH next v2] ipvlan: Fix failure path in dev registration
 during link creation

From: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:59:27 -0700

> From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
> 
> When newlink creation fails at device-registration, the port->count
> is decremented twice. Francesco Ruggeri (fruggeri@...sta.com) found
> this issue in Macvlan and the same exists in IPvlan driver too.
> 
> While fixing this issue I noticed another issue of missing unregister
> in case of failure, so adding it to the fix which is similar to the
> macvlan fix by Francesco in commit 308379607548 ("macvlan: fix failure
> during registration v3")
> 
> Reported-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@...sta.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.