4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit bd28899dd34f9283c567f7eeb31bb546f10820b5 ]
This patch is just wrong, sorry. I was trying to fix a static checker
warning and misread the code. The reference taken in macsec_newlink()
is released in macsec_free_netdev() when the netdevice is destroyed.
This reverts commit 5dcd8400884cc4a043a6d4617e042489e5d566a9.
Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 5dcd8400884c ("macsec: missing dev_put() on error in macsec_newlink()")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/macsec.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
@@ -3277,7 +3277,7 @@ static int macsec_newlink(struct net *ne
err = netdev_upper_dev_link(real_dev, dev, extack);
if (err < 0)
- goto put_dev;
+ goto unregister;
/* need to be already registered so that ->init has run and
* the MAC addr is set
@@ -3316,8 +3316,7 @@ del_dev:
macsec_del_dev(macsec);
unlink:
netdev_upper_dev_unlink(real_dev, dev);
-put_dev:
- dev_put(real_dev);
+unregister:
unregister_netdevice(dev);
return err;
}