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Subject[PATCH 4.14 286/496] macsec: missing dev_put() on error in macsec_newlink()
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4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

[ Upstream commit 5dcd8400884cc4a043a6d4617e042489e5d566a9 ]

We moved the dev_hold(real_dev); call earlier in the function but forgot
to update the error paths.

Fixes: 0759e552bce7 ("macsec: fix negative refcnt on parent link")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/macsec.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
@@ -3248,7 +3248,7 @@ static int macsec_newlink(struct net *ne

err = netdev_upper_dev_link(real_dev, dev);
if (err < 0)
- goto unregister;
+ goto put_dev;

/* need to be already registered so that ->init has run and
* the MAC addr is set
@@ -3284,7 +3284,8 @@ del_dev:
macsec_del_dev(macsec);
unlink:
netdev_upper_dev_unlink(real_dev, dev);
-unregister:
+put_dev:
+ dev_put(real_dev);
unregister_netdevice(dev);
return err;
}

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