mac802154: move dev_hold out of ieee802154_if_add

This patch moves the dev_hold call inside of nl-phy ieee802154_add_iface
function. The ieee802154_add_iface is the only one function which use the
ieee802154_if_add function and contains the corresponding dev_put call.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
index 5d914d3..397ca12 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ int ieee802154_add_iface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
                rc = PTR_ERR(dev);
                goto nla_put_failure;
        }
+       dev_hold(dev);
 
        if (info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_HW_ADDR]) {
                struct sockaddr addr;

diff --git a/net/mac802154/iface.c b/net/mac802154/iface.c
index fced04b..78cb381 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac802154/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac802154/iface.c
@@ -501,7 +501,6 @@ ieee802154_if_add(struct ieee802154_local *local, const char *name,
        if (err)
                goto err_free;
 
-       dev_hold(dev); /* we return an incremented device refcount */
        return dev;
 
 err_free: