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Revision 6b863d1d3239eff0f45c2e6e672f5b56db828db0 authored by Eric Dumazet on 17 November 2009, 14:45:04 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 17 November 2009, 14:45:04 UTC
In case register_netdevice() returns an error, and a new vlan_group
was allocated and inserted in vlan_group_hash[] we call
vlan_group_free() without deleting group from hash table. Future
lookups can give infinite loops or crashes.

We must delete the vlan_group using RCU safe procedure.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tip revision: 6b863d1d3239eff0f45c2e6e672f5b56db828db0 authored by Eric Dumazet on 17 November 2009, 14:45:04 UTC
vlan: Fix register_vlan_dev() error path
Tip revision: 6b863d1
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