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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2007-07-30 17:04:52 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-07-31 02:28:16 -0700
commitb217d616a15fcfb3caf2a72c1a071c6d3f182f8d (patch)
tree301422d7c0fba653dfb5e32c80fedc2cede627e3 /net/ipv4
parentfcc5a03ac42564e9e255c1134dda47442289e466 (diff)
[IPV4/IPV6]: Fail registration if inet device construction fails
Now that netdev notifications can fail, we can use this to signal errors during registration for IPv4/IPv6. In particular, if we fail to allocate memory for the inet device, we can fail the netdev registration. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/devinet.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index abf6352f990..5b77bdaa57d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1056,10 +1056,9 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
if (!in_dev) {
if (event == NETDEV_REGISTER) {
in_dev = inetdev_init(dev);
+ if (!in_dev)
+ return notifier_from_errno(-ENOMEM);
if (dev == &loopback_dev) {
- if (!in_dev)
- panic("devinet: "
- "Failed to create loopback\n");
IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOXFRM, 1);
IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOPOLICY, 1);
}