From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.
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commit 78032f9b3eae3a43da9468d8ce30caa6be84f89d upstream.
We recently added a new error path and it needs a dev_put().
Fixes: 7adac1ec8198 ('6lowpan: Only make 6lowpan links to IEEE802154 devices')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
index ceabe6f13216..70348be444c1 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
@@ -1392,8 +1392,10 @@ static int lowpan_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
real_dev = dev_get_by_index(src_net, nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_LINK]));
if (!real_dev)
return -ENODEV;
- if (real_dev->type != ARPHRD_IEEE802154)
+ if (real_dev->type != ARPHRD_IEEE802154) {
+ dev_put(real_dev);
return -EINVAL;
+ }
lowpan_dev_info(dev)->real_dev = real_dev;
lowpan_dev_info(dev)->fragment_tag = 0;
--
2.12.0