| From | Kamal Mostafa <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 91/98] ppp: release rtnl mutex when interface creation fails | Date | Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:31:25 -0700 |
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4.2.8-ckt6 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
commit 6faac63a6986f29ef39827f460edd3a5ba64ad5c upstream.
Add missing rtnl_unlock() in the error path of ppp_create_interface().
Fixes: 58a89ecaca53 ("ppp: fix lockdep splat in ppp_dev_uninit()") Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c index 3f3bda8..e82b43c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -2790,6 +2790,7 @@ static struct ppp *ppp_create_interface(struct net *net, int unit, out2: mutex_unlock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex); + rtnl_unlock(); free_netdev(dev); out1: *retp = ret; -- 2.7.0
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