[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "atm: idt77252: fix dev refcnt leak" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Dec 11 14:40:11 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    atm: idt77252: fix dev refcnt leak

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Ying Xue <ying.xue at windriver.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:09:27 +0800
Subject: atm: idt77252: fix dev refcnt leak

commit b5de4a22f157ca345cdb3575207bf46402414bc1 upstream.

init_card() calls dev_get_by_name() to get a network deceive. But it
doesn't decrease network device reference count after the device is
used.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue at windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/atm/idt77252.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c b/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
index 272f009..1bdf104 100644
--- a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
+++ b/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
@@ -3511,7 +3511,7 @@ static int init_card(struct atm_dev *dev)
 	tmp = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, tname);	/* jhs: was "tmp = dev_get(tname);" */
 	if (tmp) {
 		memcpy(card->atmdev->esi, tmp->dev_addr, 6);
-
+		dev_put(tmp);
 		printk("%s: ESI %pM\n", card->name, card->atmdev->esi);
 	}
 	/*
--
1.8.3.2





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