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Commit 0e0eee24 authored by Cong Wang's avatar Cong Wang Committed by David S. Miller
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net: correct error path in rtnl_newlink()



I saw the following BUG when ->newlink() fails in rtnl_newlink():

[   40.240058] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6438!

this is due to free_netdev() is not supposed to be called before
netdev is completely unregistered, therefore it is not correct
to call free_netdev() here, at least for ops->newlink!=NULL case,
many drivers call it in ->destructor so that rtnl_unlock() will
take care of it, we probably don't need to do anything here.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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