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Commit 7afb8886 authored by WANG Cong's avatar WANG Cong Committed by David S. Miller
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rtnetlink: call ->dellink on failure when ->newlink exists



Ignacy reported that when eth0 is down and add a vlan device
on top of it like:

  ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 up type vlan id 1

We will get a refcount leak:

  unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0.1 to become free. Usage count = 2

The problem is when rtnl_configure_link() fails in rtnl_newlink(),
we simply call unregister_device(), but for stacked device like vlan,
we almost do nothing when we unregister the upper device, more work
is done when we unregister the lower device, so call its ->dellink().

Reported-by: default avatarIgnacy Gawedzki <ignacy.gawedzki@green-communications.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent d95e2fe0
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