From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Ying Xue" , "David S. Miller" Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 03:08:44 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: [PATCH 3.2 164/185] atm: idt77252: fix dev refcnt leak In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.2.54-rc1 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: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/atm/idt77252.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c b/drivers/atm/idt77252.c index 1c05212..b0e75ce 100644 --- a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c +++ b/drivers/atm/idt77252.c @@ -3513,7 +3513,7 @@ 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); } /*