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Herbert Xu ae88c43c01 macvlan: Fix device ref leak when purging bc_queue ...

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When a parent macvlan device is destroyed we end up purging its
broadcast queue without dropping the device reference count on
the packet source device.  This causes the source device to linger.

This patch drops that reference count.

Fixes: 260916dfb4 ("macvlan: Fix potential use-after free for...")
Reported-by: Joe Ghalam <Joe.Ghalam@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2017-05-03 08:36:37 -07:00

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