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[PATCH] macvlan: unregister net device when netdev_upper_dev_link() fails

From: Cong Wang <hidden>
Date: 2014-02-11 23:51:44
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Cong Wang <redacted>

rtnl_newlink() doesn't unregister it for us on failure.

Cc: Patrick McHardy <redacted>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/macvlan.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 8433de4..a5d2189 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -879,14 +879,15 @@ int macvlan_common_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
 	dev->priv_flags |= IFF_MACVLAN;
 	err = netdev_upper_dev_link(lowerdev, dev);
 	if (err)
-		goto destroy_port;
-
+		goto unregister_netdev;
 
 	list_add_tail_rcu(&vlan->list, &port->vlans);
 	netif_stacked_transfer_operstate(lowerdev, dev);
 
 	return 0;
 
+unregister_netdev:
+	unregister_netdevice(dev);
 destroy_port:
 	port->count -= 1;
 	if (!port->count)
-- 
1.8.3.1
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