From c4e38f41e34ad853651d66227aae23e48457dce0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:43:24 -0800 Subject: [IPV4]: Fix rtm_to_ifaddr() error handling. Return negative error value (embedded in the pointer) instead of returning NULL. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/devinet.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/devinet.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c index e10794dc5f6..98a00d0edc7 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c @@ -502,8 +502,10 @@ static struct in_ifaddr *rtm_to_ifaddr(struct nlmsghdr *nlh) goto errout; ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh); - if (ifm->ifa_prefixlen > 32 || tb[IFA_LOCAL] == NULL) + if (ifm->ifa_prefixlen > 32 || tb[IFA_LOCAL] == NULL) { + err = -EINVAL; goto errout; + } dev = __dev_get_by_index(ifm->ifa_index); if (dev == NULL) { -- cgit v1.2.3