Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/3] net: fix issues around register_netdevice() failures

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:40:08 +0000

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master):

On Wed,  6 Jan 2021 10:40:04 -0800 you wrote:
> This series attempts to clean up the life cycle of struct
> net_device. Dave has added dev->needs_free_netdev in the
> past to fix double frees, we can lean on that mechanism
> a little more to fix remaining issues with register_netdevice().
> 
> This is the next chapter of the saga which already includes:
> commit 0e0eee2465df ("net: correct error path in rtnl_newlink()")
> commit e51fb152318e ("rtnetlink: fix a memory leak when ->newlink fails")
> commit cf124db566e6 ("net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.")
> commit 93ee31f14f6f ("[NET]: Fix free_netdev on register_netdev failure.")
> commit 814152a89ed5 ("net: fix memleak in register_netdevice()")
> commit 10cc514f451a ("net: Fix null de-reference of device refcount")
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,1/3] docs: net: explain struct net_device lifetime
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/2b446e650b41
  - [net,2/3] net: make free_netdev() more lenient with unregistering devices
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/c269a24ce057
  - [net,3/3] net: make sure devices go through netdev_wait_all_refs
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/766b0515d5be

You are awesome, thank you!
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