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authorKito Xu <veritas501@foxmail.com>2025-07-09 03:52:51 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-07-17 18:37:18 +0200
commit473f3eadfc73b0fb6d8dee5829d19a5772e387f7 (patch)
treee0902e86740ce28a1e37185c12eb25ef77fa45fd
parente0dd2e9729660f3f4fcb16e0aef87342911528ef (diff)
net: appletalk: Fix device refcount leak in atrtr_create()
[ Upstream commit 711c80f7d8b163d3ecd463cd96f07230f488e750 ] When updating an existing route entry in atrtr_create(), the old device reference was not being released before assigning the new device, leading to a device refcount leak. Fix this by calling dev_put() to release the old device reference before holding the new one. Fixes: c7f905f0f6d4 ("[ATALK]: Add missing dev_hold() to atrtr_create().") Signed-off-by: Kito Xu <veritas501@foxmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_E1A26771CDAB389A0396D1681A90A49E5D09@qq.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--net/appletalk/ddp.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/appletalk/ddp.c b/net/appletalk/ddp.c
index b068651984fe..fa7f002b14fa 100644
--- a/net/appletalk/ddp.c
+++ b/net/appletalk/ddp.c
@@ -576,6 +576,7 @@ static int atrtr_create(struct rtentry *r, struct net_device *devhint)
/* Fill in the routing entry */
rt->target = ta->sat_addr;
+ dev_put(rt->dev); /* Release old device */
dev_hold(devhint);
rt->dev = devhint;
rt->flags = r->rt_flags;