From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix net_device leak in vlan
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:23:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DC18C9.8090501@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070903133520.GV21089@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro wrote:
> In "[VLAN]: Move device registation to seperate function" (commit
> e89fe42cd03c8fd3686df82d8390a235717a66de), a pile of code got moved
> to register_vlan_dev(), including grabbing a reference to underlying
> device. However, original dev_hold() had been left behind, so we
> leak a reference to net_device now...
Looks good, thanks for catching this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-03 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-03 13:35 [PATCH] fix net_device leak in vlan Al Viro
2007-09-03 14:23 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-09-16 23:43 ` David Miller
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