Patch "atm: idt77252: fix dev refcnt leak" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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

    atm: idt77252: fix dev refcnt leak

to the 3.10-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:
     atm-idt77252-fix-dev-refcnt-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

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


>From 9a5846bbcd170262d4c9a0e2602f7712b7644db0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ying Xue <ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:09:27 +0800
Subject: atm: idt77252: fix dev refcnt leak

From: Ying Xue <ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit b5de4a22f157ca345cdb3575207bf46402414bc1 ]

init_card() calls dev_get_by_name() to get a network deceive. But it
doesn't decrease network device reference count after the device is
used.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/atm/idt77252.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
+++ b/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
@@ -3511,7 +3511,7 @@ static int init_card(struct atm_dev *dev
 	tmp = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, tname);	/* jhs: was "tmp = dev_get(tname);" */
 	if (tmp) {
 		memcpy(card->atmdev->esi, tmp->dev_addr, 6);
-
+		dev_put(tmp);
 		printk("%s: ESI %pM\n", card->name, card->atmdev->esi);
 	}
 	/*


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.10/atm-idt77252-fix-dev-refcnt-leak.patch
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