Re: [PATCH] fix net_device leak in vlan

2007-09-16 Thread David Miller
From: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:35:20 +0100 > In "[VLAN]: Move device registation to seperate function" (commit > e89fe42cd03c8fd3686df82d8390a235717a66de), a pile of code got moved > to register_vlan_dev(), including grabbing a reference to underlying > device. However

Re: [PATCH] fix net_device leak in vlan

2007-09-03 Thread Patrick McHardy
Al Viro wrote: > In "[VLAN]: Move device registation to seperate function" (commit > e89fe42cd03c8fd3686df82d8390a235717a66de), a pile of code got moved > to register_vlan_dev(), including grabbing a reference to underlying > device. However, original dev_hold() had been left behind, so we > leak

[PATCH] fix net_device leak in vlan

2007-09-03 Thread Al Viro
In "[VLAN]: Move device registation to seperate function" (commit e89fe42cd03c8fd3686df82d8390a235717a66de), a pile of code got moved to register_vlan_dev(), including grabbing a reference to underlying device. However, original dev_hold() had been left behind, so we leak a reference to net_device