From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:36694 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753332AbdF2Q6q (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:58:46 -0400 Subject: Patch "mac80211: free netdev on dev_alloc_name() error" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree To: johannes.berg@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:58:33 +0200 Message-ID: <1498755513116119@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: free netdev on dev_alloc_name() error to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mac80211-free-netdev-on-dev_alloc_name-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Thu Jun 29 18:58:00 CEST 2017 From: Johannes Berg Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 21:33:09 +0200 Subject: mac80211: free netdev on dev_alloc_name() error From: Johannes Berg [ Upstream commit c7a61cba71fd151cc7d9ebe53a090e0e61eeebf3 ] The change to remove free_netdev() from ieee80211_if_free() erroneously didn't add the necessary free_netdev() for when ieee80211_if_free() is called directly in one place, rather than as the priv_destructor. Add the missing call. Fixes: cf124db566e6 ("net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/mac80211/iface.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c @@ -1810,6 +1810,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_lo ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name); if (ret < 0) { ieee80211_if_free(ndev); + free_netdev(ndev); return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@intel.com are queue-4.11/mac80211-free-netdev-on-dev_alloc_name-error.patch