From: Weilong Chen <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 20:58:10 +0800
> When vlan_newlink call register_vlan_dev fails, it might return error
> with dev->reg_state = NETREG_UNREGISTERED. The rtnl_newlink should
> free the memory. But currently rtnl_newlink only free the memory which
> state is NETREG_UNINITIALIZED.
...
> Fixes: cb626bf566eb ("net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak")
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen <[email protected]>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
