From: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:22:23 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [NETPOLL]: Fix a leak-n-bug in netpoll_cleanup()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc1~1109^2~27
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1498b3f1952ae539a7d5c356acf942d5f4c1aece;p=pandora-kernel.git

[NETPOLL]: Fix a leak-n-bug in netpoll_cleanup()

93ec2c723e3f8a216dde2899aeb85c648672bc6b applied excessive duct tape to
the netpoll beast's netpoll_cleanup(), thus substituting one leak with
another, and opening up a little buglet :-)

net_device->npinfo (netpoll_info) is a shared and refcounted object and
cannot simply be set NULL the first time netpoll_cleanup() is called.
Otherwise, further netpoll_cleanup()'s see np->dev->npinfo == NULL and
become no-ops, thus leaking. And it's a bug too: the first call to
netpoll_cleanup() would thus (annoyingly) "disable" other (still alive)
netpolls too. Maybe nobody noticed this because netconsole (only user
of netpoll) never supported multiple netpoll objects earlier.

This is a trivial and obvious one-line fixlet.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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