This patch moves the dev_hold call inside of nl-phy ieee802154_add_iface
function. The ieee802154_add_iface is the only one function which use the
ieee802154_if_add function and contains the corresponding dev_put call.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c | 1 +
net/mac802154/iface.c | 1 -
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
index 5d914d3..397ca126 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ int ieee802154_add_iface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
rc = PTR_ERR(dev);
goto nla_put_failure;
}
+ dev_hold(dev);
if (info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_HW_ADDR]) {
struct sockaddr addr;
diff --git a/net/mac802154/iface.c b/net/mac802154/iface.c
index fced04b..78cb381 100644
--- a/net/mac802154/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac802154/iface.c
@@ -501,7 +501,6 @@ ieee802154_if_add(struct ieee802154_local *local, const char *name,
if (err)
goto err_free;
- dev_hold(dev); /* we return an incremented device refcount */
return dev;
err_free:
--
2.1.3
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