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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Subject: net_device leak after "bridge: allow creating bridge devices
	 with netlink"?
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:34:18 +0100
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Stephen,

directly returning the result of register_netdev() from br_add_bridge()
would - to me - appear to be leaking "dev" in case of failure. Or am I
overlooking some implicit mechanism by which this would get freed?

Thanks, Jan