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From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Cc:     Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>, Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 015/135] yam: fix possible memory leak in yam_init_driver
Date:   Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:51:09 -0400
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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 1a4729c36aa49..623e4225e7c84 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
@@ -1160,6 +1160,7 @@ 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;
-- 
2.25.1