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Commit e51fb152 authored by Cong Wang's avatar Cong Wang Committed by David S. Miller
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rtnetlink: fix a memory leak when ->newlink fails



It is possible that ->newlink() fails before registering
the device, in this case we should just free it, it's
safe to call free_netdev().

Fixes: commit 0e0eee24 (net: correct error path in rtnl_newlink())
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 9aaae044
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