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From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 48/49] Revert "net: sit: fix memory leak in sit_init_net()"
Date:   Sun, 27 Oct 2019 22:01:26 +0100
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From: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com>

This reverts commit 375d6d454a95ebacb9c6eb0b715da05a4458ffef which is
commit 07f12b26e21ab359261bf75cfcb424fdc7daeb6d upstream.

Unnecessarily calling free_netdev() from sit_init_net().
ipip6_dev_free() of 4.9.y called free_netdev(), so no need
to call again after ipip6_dev_free().

Cc: Mao Wenan <maowenan@huawei.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Mao Wenan <maowenan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv6/sit.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/sit.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c
@@ -1856,7 +1856,6 @@ static int __net_init sit_init_net(struc
 
 err_reg_dev:
 	ipip6_dev_free(sitn->fb_tunnel_dev);
-	free_netdev(sitn->fb_tunnel_dev);
 err_alloc_dev:
 	return err;
 }