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authorAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>2006-08-29 02:15:24 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-08-29 21:22:18 -0700
commitfab2caf62ed03d83bd3a3598b859c3c345a8e8b5 (patch)
treeb72cbc8e158fe6d7f71f21d3007a47eba41123b3 /net/netlink
parent3fdf3f0c99e90e167f0d0643fcc8739e27456697 (diff)
[NETLINK]: Call panic if nl_table allocation fails
This patch makes crash happen if initialization of nl_table fails in initcalls. It is better than getting use after free crash later. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c14
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index b85c1f9f128..8b85036ba8e 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1273,8 +1273,7 @@ netlink_kernel_create(int unit, unsigned int groups,
struct netlink_sock *nlk;
unsigned long *listeners = NULL;
- if (!nl_table)
- return NULL;
+ BUG_ON(!nl_table);
if (unit<0 || unit>=MAX_LINKS)
return NULL;
@@ -1745,11 +1744,8 @@ static int __init netlink_proto_init(void)
netlink_skb_parms_too_large();
nl_table = kcalloc(MAX_LINKS, sizeof(*nl_table), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!nl_table) {
-enomem:
- printk(KERN_CRIT "netlink_init: Cannot allocate nl_table\n");
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
+ if (!nl_table)
+ goto panic;
if (num_physpages >= (128 * 1024))
max = num_physpages >> (21 - PAGE_SHIFT);
@@ -1769,7 +1765,7 @@ enomem:
nl_pid_hash_free(nl_table[i].hash.table,
1 * sizeof(*hash->table));
kfree(nl_table);
- goto enomem;
+ goto panic;
}
memset(hash->table, 0, 1 * sizeof(*hash->table));
hash->max_shift = order;
@@ -1786,6 +1782,8 @@ enomem:
rtnetlink_init();
out:
return err;
+panic:
+ panic("netlink_init: Cannot allocate nl_table\n");
}
core_initcall(netlink_proto_init);