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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] decnet: netdevice refcount leak
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:43:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF3E1B3.8070204@gmail.com> (raw)

David, if you accept the following patch for net-2.6, it would help me
if you also can pull it in net-next-2.6

Thanks

[PATCH] decnet: netdevice refcount leak

While working on device refcount stuff, I found a device refcount leak
through DECNET.
This nasty bug can be used to hold refcounts on any !DECNET netdevice.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
 net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c |    7 +++----
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c b/net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c
index 26b0ab1..2036568 100644
--- a/net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c
+++ b/net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c
@@ -263,11 +263,10 @@ static int dn_def_dev_strategy(ctl_table *table,
 			return -ENODEV;
 
 		rv = -ENODEV;
-		if (dev->dn_ptr != NULL) {
+		if (dev->dn_ptr != NULL)
 			rv = dn_dev_set_default(dev, 1);
-			if (rv)
-				dev_put(dev);
-		}
+		if (rv)
+			dev_put(dev);
 	}
 
 	return rv;

             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-06  8:43 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-11-06  9:07 ` [PATCH] decnet: netdevice refcount leak David Miller

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