From 8d6184e4881b423522136aeb3ec1cbd9c35e8813 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:52:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] bonding: fix device leak on error in bond_create()

When the register_netdevice() call fails, the newly allocated device is
not freed.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 1787e3c8657..430c02267d7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -4946,6 +4946,8 @@ int bond_create(struct net *net, const char *name)
 	}
 
 	res = register_netdevice(bond_dev);
+	if (res < 0)
+		goto out_netdev;
 
 out:
 	rtnl_unlock();