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* [Patch net] xfrm6: release dev before returning error
@ 2013-05-10  8:40 Cong Wang
  2013-05-12  0:41 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Cong Wang @ 2013-05-10  8:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: Herbert Xu, Steffen Klassert, David S. Miller, Cong Wang

From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>

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

Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>

---
diff --git a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
index 4ef7bdb..23ed03d 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
@@ -103,8 +103,10 @@ static int xfrm6_fill_dst(struct xfrm_dst *xdst, struct net_device *dev,
 	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;
+	}
 
 	rt6_transfer_peer(&xdst->u.rt6, rt);
 

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* Re: [Patch net] xfrm6: release dev before returning error
  2013-05-10  8:40 [Patch net] xfrm6: release dev before returning error Cong Wang
@ 2013-05-12  0:41 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2013-05-12  0:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: amwang; +Cc: netdev, herbert, steffen.klassert

From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 16:40:00 +0800

> From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
> 
> We forget to call dev_put() on error path in xfrm6_fill_dst(),
> its caller doesn't handle this.
> 
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.

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