[ Upstream commit55b7ab1178
] VLAN checks for NETREG_UNINITIALIZED to distinguish between registration failure and unregistration in progress. Since commitcb626bf566
("net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak") registration failure may, however, result in NETREG_UNREGISTERED as well as NETREG_UNINITIALIZED. This fix is similer tocebb69754f
("rtnetlink: Fix memory(net_device) leak when ->newlink fails") Fixes:cb626bf566
("net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>