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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Netdevice reference leak in af_ax25.c ??
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:41:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43174B67.9030109@candelatech.com> (raw)


I believe the SO_BINDTODEVICE case in net/ax25/af_x25.c  (line 613 or so)
leaks a reference to a net device.  It does a dev_get_by_name,
which holds a reference, but since it never assigns the pointer
anywhere, I do not see how it can ever free it later.

Please clue me in as to where it's released if it actually is.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


             reply	other threads:[~2005-09-01 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-01 18:41 Ben Greear [this message]
2005-09-01 18:56 ` Netdevice reference leak in af_ax25.c ?? Patrick McHardy
2005-09-01 19:02   ` Ben Greear
2005-09-01 19:30   ` Ralf Baechle
2005-09-01 19:42     ` Ben Greear

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