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authorPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>2008-05-04 17:57:29 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-05-04 17:57:29 -0700
commitc37aa90b0458d87342e0bb083f6bf7d113220d09 (patch)
tree1df16515edbc53dc2d3515f95846169d9326b9d7 /net/bridge
parentbe0c007ac64f880a946995d6d1fc654acc81484d (diff)
bridge: Net device leak in br_add_bridge().
In case the register_netdevice() call fails the device is leaked, since the out: label is just rtnl_unlock()+return. Free the device. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge')
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_if.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
index 77a981a1ee5..bff0f5bb12b 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
@@ -280,8 +280,10 @@ int br_add_bridge(const char *name)
}
ret = register_netdevice(dev);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ free_netdev(dev);
goto out;
+ }
ret = br_sysfs_addbr(dev);
if (ret)