When device is added to bridge its refcnt is incremented (in new_nbp()), but if error occurs during further br_add_if() operations this counter is not decremented back. Fix it by adding dev_put() call in the error path. Signed-off-by: Volodymyr G Lukiianyk <volodymyrgl@xxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c index 298e0f4..77a981a 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_if.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c @@ -411,9 +411,12 @@ err2: br_fdb_delete_by_port(br, p, 1); err1: kobject_del(&p->kobj); - return err; + goto put_back; err0: kobject_put(&p->kobj); + +put_back: + dev_put(dev); return err; }
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