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authorDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>2010-04-22 03:53:27 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-23 02:57:26 +0400
commit80032cffb95edff4fc216b1cb21682257be326b7 (patch)
treee058d007a9db28dcb61a5903b6d79e5e6b96f0c3 /net/core/rtnetlink.c
parentf4f914b58019f0e50d521bbbadfaee260d766f95 (diff)
downloadlinux-80032cffb95edff4fc216b1cb21682257be326b7.tar.xz
rtnetlink: potential ERR_PTR dereference
In the original code, if rtnl_create_link() returned an ERR_PTR then that would get passed to rtnl_configure_link() which dereferences it. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/rtnetlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 4568120d8533..fe776c9ddeca 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1270,10 +1270,11 @@ replay:
err = ops->newlink(net, dev, tb, data);
else
err = register_netdevice(dev);
- if (err < 0 && !IS_ERR(dev)) {
+
+ if (err < 0 && !IS_ERR(dev))
free_netdev(dev);
+ if (err < 0)
goto out;
- }
err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, ifm);
if (err < 0)