Patch "xfrm6: release dev before returning error" has been added to the 3.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xfrm6: release dev before returning error

to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     xfrm6-release-dev-before-returning-error.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From ab5d0f8b2af88af5a1a442fcdb39896474dd7943 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 22:40:00 +0000
Subject: xfrm6: release dev before returning error


From: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 84c4a9dfbf430861e7588d95ae3ff61535dca351 ]

We forget to call dev_put() on error path in xfrm6_fill_dst(),
its caller doesn't handle this.

Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
@@ -96,8 +96,10 @@ static int xfrm6_fill_dst(struct xfrm_ds
 	dev_hold(dev);
 
 	xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
-	if (!xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev)
+	if (!xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev) {
+		dev_put(dev);
 		return -ENODEV;
+	}
 
 	xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_peer = rt->rt6i_peer;
 	if (rt->rt6i_peer)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amwang@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.4/xfrm6-release-dev-before-returning-error.patch
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