From: Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com
[ Upstream commit 98749b7188affbf2900c2aab704a8853901d1139 ]
If register_netdev(dev) fails, free_netdev(dev) needs to be called, otherwise a memory leak will occur.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: Hulk Robot hulkci@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c index 71cdef9fb56bc..5ab53e9942f30 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c +++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c @@ -1133,6 +1133,7 @@ static int __init yam_init_driver(void) err = register_netdev(dev); if (err) { printk(KERN_WARNING "yam: cannot register net device %s\n", dev->name); + free_netdev(dev); goto error; } yam_devs[i] = dev;