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H A Dmacvlan.cdiff 308379607548524b8d86dbf20134681024935e0b Sat Apr 23 17:03:32 CDT 2016 Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@arista.com> macvlan: fix failure during registration v3

If macvlan_common_newlink fails in register_netdevice after macvlan_init
then it decrements port->count twice, first in macvlan_uninit (from
register_netdevice or rollback_registered) and then again in
macvlan_common_newlink.
A similar problem may exist in the ipvlan driver.
This patch consolidates modifications to port->count into macvlan_init
and macvlan_uninit (thanks to Eric Biederman for suggesting this approach).

v3: remove macvtap specific bits.

Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@arista.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>