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| author | Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com> | 2020-06-04 20:18:51 +0800 |
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| committer | Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> | 2020-06-29 20:07:49 -0400 |
| commit | 9f34721c28ebf58389e5fb138a7f11e6a4144977 (patch) | |
| tree | caf1f79918ff4825ebad1a971649c9d3c8b18165 | |
| parent | 94feb3b5641132f370aa71bde8ac70d35fd19b8e (diff) | |
yam: fix possible memory leak in yam_init_driver
[ Upstream commit 98749b7188affbf2900c2aab704a8853901d1139 ]
If register_netdev(dev) fails, free_netdev(dev) needs
to be called, otherwise a memory leak will occur.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c index 1a4729c36aa4..623e4225e7c8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c +++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c @@ -1160,6 +1160,7 @@ static int __init yam_init_driver(void) err = register_netdev(dev); if (err) { printk(KERN_WARNING "yam: cannot register net device %s\n", dev->name); + free_netdev(dev); goto error; } yam_devs[i] = dev; |