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| author | Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> | 2016-04-05 15:58:22 -0500 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-04-05 19:34:44 -0400 |
| commit | 727ceaa49bb86518470c19640ed7f067c5aa9485 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ec8ebb890e54e50e6a4f4057622d6957048d0b4 /net/core | |
| parent | aa4f069e167b8302b0ccf920bca389a1fbe2bc4a (diff) | |
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Revert "netpoll: Fix extra refcount release in netpoll_cleanup()"
This reverts commit 543e3a8da5a4c453e992d5351ef405d5e32f27d7.
Direct callers of __netpoll_setup() depend on it to set np->dev,
so we can't simply move that assignment up to netpoll_stup().
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/netpoll.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c index a57bd17805b4..94acfc89ad97 100644 --- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -603,6 +603,7 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev) const struct net_device_ops *ops; int err; + np->dev = ndev; strlcpy(np->dev_name, ndev->name, IFNAMSIZ); INIT_WORK(&np->cleanup_work, netpoll_async_cleanup); @@ -669,7 +670,6 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) goto unlock; } dev_hold(ndev); - np->dev = ndev; if (netdev_master_upper_dev_get(ndev)) { np_err(np, "%s is a slave device, aborting\n", np->dev_name); @@ -770,7 +770,6 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) return 0; put: - np->dev = NULL; dev_put(ndev); unlock: rtnl_unlock(); |