Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:21:09 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20090726.192109.14263864.davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@linux-foundation.org
Cc: dfeng@redhat.com, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/bridge: use kobject_put to release kobject in
 br_add_if error path
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:36:07 -0700

> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:06:32 +0800
> Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> kobject_init_and_add will alloc memory for kobj->name, so in br_add_if
>> error path, simply use kobject_del will not free memory for kobj->name.
>> Fix by using kobject_put instead, kobject_put will internally calls
>> kobject_del and frees memory for kobj->name.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
...
> 
> I assume you tested this by doing something like adding two interfaces
> with the same MAC address to a bridge.
> 
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Applied, thanks!
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