This patch is just wrong, sorry. I was trying to fix a static checker
warning and misread the code. The reference taken in macsec_newlink()
is released in macsec_free_netdev() when the netdevice is destroyed.
This reverts commit 5dcd8400884cc4a043a6d4617e042489e5d566a9.
Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labb...@redhat.com>
Fixes: 5dcd8400884c ("macsec: missing dev_put() on error in macsec_newlink()")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Sabrina Dubroca <s...@queasysnail.net>
---
I sent this earlier but I messed up the CC list. I've updated the
commit message as well.
drivers/net/macsec.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/macsec.c b/drivers/net/macsec.c
index 9cbb0c8a896a..7de88b33d5b9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
@@ -3277,7 +3277,7 @@ static int macsec_newlink(struct net *net, struct
net_device *dev,
err = netdev_upper_dev_link(real_dev, dev, extack);
if (err < 0)
- goto put_dev;
+ goto unregister;
/* need to be already registered so that ->init has run and
* the MAC addr is set
@@ -3316,8 +3316,7 @@ static int macsec_newlink(struct net *net, struct
net_device *dev,
macsec_del_dev(macsec);
unlink:
netdev_upper_dev_unlink(real_dev, dev);
-put_dev:
- dev_put(real_dev);
+unregister:
unregister_netdevice(dev);
return err;
}
--
2.16.2
