rtnetlink: fix a memory leak when ->newlink fails
authorCong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Tue, 3 Jun 2014 23:40:47 +0000 (16:40 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 4 Jun 2014 02:16:10 +0000 (19:16 -0700)
commite51fb152318ee6502a2d224771b0bbbbda046128
tree313cc6f5be89fabea00162cf970285791c07899b
parent9aaae044abe95de182d09004cc3fa181bf22e6e0
rtnetlink: fix a memory leak when ->newlink fails

It is possible that ->newlink() fails before registering
the device, in this case we should just free it, it's
safe to call free_netdev().

Fixes: commit 0e0eee2465df77bcec2 (net: correct error path in rtnl_newlink())
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/rtnetlink.c