[net-2.6.24][patch 2/2] Dynamically allocate the loopback device

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Wed Sep 26 14:40:25 PDT 2007


David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> writes:

> I've put these patches into the just-rebased net-2.6.24 tree.
>
> I made a minor modification to the second patch, the
> out_free_netdev: code in loopback_init() ended like this:
>
> out_free_netdev:
> 	free_netdev(dev);
> 	goto out;
> 	return err;
> };
>
> I got rid of the spurious return statement and the trailing
> semi-colon after the function closing brace.

Thanks.  I feel silly for not doing a closer code review of
this variant of the patch and missing this bug.

Eric


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