From c37aa90b0458d87342e0bb083f6bf7d113220d09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 17:57:29 -0700
Subject: bridge: Net device leak in br_add_bridge().

In case the register_netdevice() call fails the device is leaked,
since the out: label is just rtnl_unlock()+return.

Free the device.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/bridge/br_if.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'net')

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
index 77a981a1ee5..bff0f5bb12b 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
@@ -280,8 +280,10 @@ int br_add_bridge(const char *name)
 	}
 
 	ret = register_netdevice(dev);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		free_netdev(dev);
 		goto out;
+	}
 
 	ret = br_sysfs_addbr(dev);
 	if (ret)
-- 
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