Em Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:49:46PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > Every time dev_get_by_name is called, and it has returned a valid struct >net_device*, dev_put should be called afterwards, because otherwise the machine hangs >when the device is unregistered (since dev->refcnt > 1). However, it seems that some >drivers do > not call dev_put after dev_get_by_name: for example, drivers/net/pppoe.c at line 573 >and net/core/dv.c at line 168. Am I wrong? For pppoe (and one has to look at the set_item and see if delete_item is needed). - Arnaldo --- linux-2.4.5-ac24/drivers/net/pppoe.c Tue Jul 3 18:45:41 2001 +++ linux-2.4.5-ac24.acme/drivers/net/pppoe.c Wed Jul 4 11:00:47 2001 @@ -567,17 +567,17 @@ if (!dev) goto end; + po->pppoe_dev = dev; + if( ! (dev->flags & IFF_UP) ) - goto end; + goto err_put; memcpy(&po->pppoe_pa, &sp->sa_addr.pppoe, sizeof(struct pppoe_addr)); error = set_item(po); if (error < 0) - goto end; - - po->pppoe_dev = dev; + goto err_put; po->chan.hdrlen = (sizeof(struct pppoe_hdr) + dev->hard_header_len); @@ -586,6 +586,8 @@ po->chan.ops = &pppoe_chan_ops; error = ppp_register_channel(&po->chan); + if (error) + goto err_put; sk->state = PPPOX_CONNECTED; } @@ -595,6 +597,10 @@ end: release_sock(sk); return error; +err_put: + dev_put(po->pppoe_dev); + po->pppoe_dev = NULL; + goto end; } - Arnaldo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/