From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750890AbbIFAdP (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Sep 2015 20:33:15 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:34081 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750818AbbIFAdL (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Sep 2015 20:33:11 -0400 Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 17:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20150905.173310.1415682891578970908.davem@davemloft.net> To: sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: wan: sbni: fix device usage count From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1441260030-8141-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> References: <1441260030-8141-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Sat, 05 Sep 2015 17:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sudip Mukherjee Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:30:30 +0530 > dev_get_by_name() will increment the usage count if the matching device > is found. But we were not decrementing the count if we have got the > device and the device is non-active. > > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee Applied, thanks.