From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Ying Xue , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 3.12 39/83] atm: idt77252: fix dev refcnt leak Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 13:51:29 -0800 Message-Id: <20131206214643.692560750@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20131206214640.002320724@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20131206214640.002320724@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ying Xue [ Upstream commit b5de4a22f157ca345cdb3575207bf46402414bc1 ] init_card() calls dev_get_by_name() to get a network deceive. But it doesn't decrease network device reference count after the device is used. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/atm/idt77252.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c +++ b/drivers/atm/idt77252.c @@ -3511,7 +3511,7 @@ static int init_card(struct atm_dev *dev tmp = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, tname); /* jhs: was "tmp = dev_get(tname);" */ if (tmp) { memcpy(card->atmdev->esi, tmp->dev_addr, 6); - + dev_put(tmp); printk("%s: ESI %pM\n", card->name, card->atmdev->esi); } /*