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From: David Miller
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 4:58 PM
To: Yavuz, Tuba
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] : net : hso : do not call unregister_netdev if not
registered
From: "Yavuz, Tuba"
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:28:38 +
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From: "Yavuz, Tuba"
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:28:38 +
> On an error path inside the hso_create_net_device function of the hso
> driver, hso_free_net_device gets called. This causes potentially a
> negative reference count in the net device if register_netdev has not
> been called yet as hs
On an error path inside the hso_create_net_device function of the hso
driver, hso_free_net_device gets called. This causes potentially a
negative reference count in the net device if register_netdev has not
been called yet as hso_free_net_device calls unregister_netdev
regardless. I think the