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Commit 764f4eb6 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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llc: fix netdevice reference leaks in llc_ui_bind()

Whenever llc_ui_bind() and/or llc_ui_autobind()
took a reference on a netdevice but subsequently fail,
they must properly release their reference
or risk the infamous message from unregister_netdevice()
at device dismantle.

unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 3

Fixes: 1da177e4

 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: default avatar赵子轩 <beraphin@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarStoyan Manolov <smanolov@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220323004147.1990845-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 2844e243
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