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| author | Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> | 2024-04-22 14:38:55 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2024-04-24 13:00:16 +0200 |
| commit | f8d05679fb3faae478d604177b0c188b340371cd (patch) | |
| tree | a3ac18731f0c1f73eaf0f543355fa9be968a1410 /net/core | |
| parent | net: core: Fix documentation (diff) | |
| download | linux-f8d05679fb3faae478d604177b0c188b340371cd.tar.xz linux-f8d05679fb3faae478d604177b0c188b340371cd.zip | |
net: free_netdev: exit earlier if dummy
For dummy devices, exit earlier at free_netdev() instead of executing
the whole function. This is necessary, because dummy devices are
special, and shouldn't have the second part of the function executed.
Otherwise reg_state, which is NETREG_DUMMY, will be overwritten and
there will be no way to identify that this is a dummy device. Also, this
device do not need the final put_device(), since dummy devices are not
registered (through register_netdevice()), where the device reference is
increased (at netdev_register_kobject()/device_add()).
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 44c2d698fd1b..62b39d6b1d8f 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -11066,7 +11066,8 @@ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev) phy_link_topo_destroy(dev->link_topo); /* Compatibility with error handling in drivers */ - if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED) { + if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED || + dev->reg_state == NETREG_DUMMY) { netdev_freemem(dev); return; } |