When rtnl_configure_link() fails, peer needs to be freed just like when register_netdevice() fails.
Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao....@zju.edu.cn> --- drivers/net/veth.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c index 8c737668008a..6c68094399cc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/veth.c +++ b/drivers/net/veth.c @@ -1405,8 +1405,6 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, /* nothing to do */ err_configure_peer: unregister_netdevice(peer); - return err; - err_register_peer: free_netdev(peer); return err; -- 2.17.1