From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:40:27 -0800
Subject: net: vlan: avoid leaks on register_vlan_dev() failures
Git-commit: 55b7ab1178cbf41f979ff83236d3321ad35ed2ad
Patch-mainline: 5.11-rc3
References: git-fixes
VLAN checks for NETREG_UNINITIALIZED to distinguish between
registration failure and unregistration in progress.
Since commit cb626bf566eb ("net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak")
registration failure may, however, result in NETREG_UNREGISTERED
as well as NETREG_UNINITIALIZED.
This fix is similer to cebb69754f37 ("rtnetlink: Fix
memory(net_device) leak when ->newlink fails")
Fixes: cb626bf566eb ("net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
net/8021q/vlan.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/8021q/vlan.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c
@@ -272,7 +272,8 @@ static int register_vlan_device(struct n
return 0;
out_free_newdev:
- if (new_dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED)
+ if (new_dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED ||
+ new_dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERED)
free_netdev(new_dev);
return err;
}