[PATCH 3.10 27/58] atm: idt77252: fix dev refcnt leak

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-12-06T22:14:30Z

From: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>

[ Upstream commit b5de4a22f157ca345cdb3575207bf46402414bc1 ]

init_card() calls dev_get_by_name() to get a network deceive. But it
doesn't decrease network device reference count after the device is
used.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/atm/idt77252.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
+++ b/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
@@ -3511,7 +3511,7 @@ static int init_card(struct atm_dev *dev
tmp = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, tname); /* jhs: was "tmp = dev_get(tname);" */
if (tmp) {
memcpy(card->atmdev->esi, tmp->dev_addr, 6);
-
+ dev_put(tmp);
printk("%s: ESI %pM\n", card->name, card->atmdev->esi);
}
/*