ppp: Do not free not yet unregistered net device.

An error path in ppp_create_interface() lacks one and may BUG in free_netdev() checking for proper dev->reg_state. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
git-mirror · May 14, 2008 · 4b95ede · 4b95ede
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
@@ -2458,6 +2458,7 @@ ppp_create_interface(int unit, int *retp)
 
 out3:
 	atomic_dec(&ppp_unit_count);
+	unregister_netdev(dev);
 out2:
 	mutex_unlock(&all_ppp_mutex);
 	free_netdev(dev);