From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Subject: Netdevice reference leak in af_ax25.c ??
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:41:43 -0700
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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

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