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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.3 1/2] Revert "vrf: fix double free and memory
 corruption on register_netdevice failure"
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
From: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:49:12 -0700
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On 12/15/15 8:31 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> This reverts commit b3abad339f8e268bb261e5844ab68b18a7797c29, which
> was an attempt to backport commit 7f109f7cc37108cba7243bc832988525b0d85909
> upstream.  The backport introduced a deadlock and other bugs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings<ben@decadent.org.uk>
> ---

Best course of action -- revert the old and do over.

Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>