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authorSudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>2015-09-03 09:00:30 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-09-06 03:32:53 +0300
commitbd516bd1feeb3890502178a74228ec05271f2b6d (patch)
tree24e89e1951cff4c3005e89b3eba56bfd97c83165 /drivers/net
parent25b4a44c19c83d98e8c0807a7ede07c1f28eab8b (diff)
downloadlinux-bd516bd1feeb3890502178a74228ec05271f2b6d.tar.xz
net: wan: sbni: fix device usage count
dev_get_by_name() will increment the usage count if the matching device is found. But we were not decrementing the count if we have got the device and the device is non-active. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wan/sbni.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/sbni.c b/drivers/net/wan/sbni.c
index 758c4ba1e97c..8fef8d83436d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/sbni.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/sbni.c
@@ -1358,6 +1358,8 @@ sbni_ioctl( struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd )
if( !slave_dev || !(slave_dev->flags & IFF_UP) ) {
netdev_err(dev, "trying to enslave non-active device %s\n",
slave_name);
+ if (slave_dev)
+ dev_put(slave_dev);
return -EPERM;
}