ipv6: Don't dev_hold(dev) in ip6_mc_find_dev_rcu.
authorRongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:54:14 +0000 (22:54 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:20:52 +0000 (11:20 -0700)
commit97490c46fea06ecf95f989789e72c54fba2e2584
treed47b5e28355cb1f68f245b1f5f2808409dbfea64
parent137a954db947096bd9378ff5a6a77336231f4a90
ipv6: Don't dev_hold(dev) in ip6_mc_find_dev_rcu.

[ Upstream commit c577923756b7fe9071f28a76b66b83b306d1d001 ]

ip6_mc_find_dev_rcu() is called with rcu_read_lock(), so don't
need to dev_hold().
With dev_hold(), not corresponding dev_put(), will lead to leak.

[ bug introduced in 96b52e61be1 (ipv6: mcast: RCU conversions) ]

Signed-off-by: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/mcast.c