From: Wang Hai <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 98749b7188affbf2900c2aab704a8853901d1139 ]
If register_netdev(dev) fails, free_netdev(dev) needs
to be called, otherwise a memory leak will occur.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
index 16a6e11939122..b74c735a423dd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
@@ -1162,6 +1162,7 @@ static int __init yam_init_driver(void)
err = register_netdev(dev);
if (err) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "yam: cannot register net device
%s\n", dev->name);
+ free_netdev(dev);
goto error;
}
yam_devs[i] = dev;
--
2.25.1
