From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch] netpoll: call dev_put() on error in netpoll_setup() Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110611.185540.1098507377577815147.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20110611155047.GA3583@shale.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: amwang@redhat.com, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org To: error27@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:40129 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752204Ab1FLB5D (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:57:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110611155047.GA3583@shale.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Dan Carpenter Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:50:47 +0300 > There is a dev_put(ndev) missing on an error path. This was > introduced in 0c1ad04aecb "netpoll: prevent netpoll setup on slave > devices". > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter > --- > This is a static checker bug, and it's possible I've misunderstood > something. Definitely looks correct to me, applied, thanks!